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21/05/2022: The ‘democracy
snags’ at Yinnar were so good I may go back and vote again a couple of more times.
21/05/2022: It begins
- if you haven't voted yet , do so now. Remember back in 2013 (under Labor) how
there were over 100 illegals arriving every single day. since Scott not a
single one: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-live-updates-from-key-electorates-polling-booths/live-coverage/2848ff10c6528c74baf9a400c613af24
21/05/2022: The Voyage of Pytheas: https://www.ancientpages.com/2021/05/29/pytheass-voyage-to-the-arctic-in-325-b-c-and-account-of-thule-the-strange-land-beyond/?fbclid=IwAR0WGF4bVpsLtXjIVqSf8qGdcJ8b1qsP1qLBb7Bq-4AsUx0a-gXiXP-uYDs
21/05/2022: Just a nonsense idea in
the first place. We have been able to manage (approx 50-80 year) rotation
of sustainable logging in state forests for 150 years whilst preserving the
very critters which are now being moved into ‘National Parks’ protection just
to be destroyed by vicious uncontrolled wildfires. The greenies really do hate
the bush: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/110m-plantation-bid-fails-victorias-timber-shortage-to-worsen/news-story/f9d63028249a536e6acc44832b962f04
21/05/2022: That was a good idea then (This is no ‘junk’ study either). New Study Finds mRNA Vaccines Actually Hurt Long-Term Immunity to Covid Compared to the Unvaccinated: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/new-study-finds-mrna-vaccines-actually-hurt-long-term-immunity-covid-compared-unvaccinated/
Furthermore those awful masks actually increased your risk of death. Great: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/another-study-confirms-wearing-masks-increases-infection-covid/
21/05/2022: Even on
election eve the almost the largest single voting bloc is people who say “a pox
on both your houses”. 29%. A record by a long shot. Neither the pollsters
nor anyone else can say where all these people's preferences will end up. I am
one of them and I know but there are several million others and only a handful
of us need to swing one way or another. It is obvious to me that we cannot risk
another government dominated by the Green nightmare but it will be an
interesting night tonight: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/election-day-anything-but-the-uniparty-majors-a-record-29-of-australians-want-another-choice/
One thing I note, the changes to the Senate voting system (clearly
intended to make it harder for minor parties to obtain a ‘quota’) could just as
easily lead to the last couple of Senate places failing to get a quota at all!
So what happens when (after successive half-Senate elections) the Senate is
still undecided? I for one am heartily sick of the two major parties colluding in this way (as they
have with several changes to the voting system over the last few years) to
ensure that one or other of them has to form government. Such collusion is in fact fascism.
Unfortunately Steve Kates is right. Let’s hope he is not also a Cassandra: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/21/it-would-be-a-madness-to-allow-labor-to-govern-if-it-is-at-all-possible-to-prevent-it/
20/05/2022: Soon from Apple ‘augmented reality’ ie the reality they want you to see: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/19/apple-gave-mixed-reality-headset-demo-to-board-of-directors-report.html
20/05/2022: How would we fare in an intergalactic war? I think Stephen Hawking was right – we should keep a low profile: https://interestingengineering.com/how-to-stop-alien-invasion
20/05/2022: After electing left-wing
governments in the
Do you want a liar as PM, someone who isn’t even eligible to stand (because of his dual citizenship): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/the-abc-publishes-photo-of-mr-and-mrs-carlo-albanese-to-help-their-son-with-section-44-citizenship-d.html Someone who has never had a job (other than with the left wing of the Labor Party)? https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/history-stands-against-albanese/
20/05/2022: So it seems our ‘masters’ pocket huge sums in Swiss bank accounts so Pfizer & etc can experiment on us: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/would-350-million-from-big-pharma-be-enough-to-buy-fauci-and-nih-approval-who-knows-its-a-secret/
19/05/2022: When a frog tries to mate
with your boot we know something is wrong but when a human male tries to mate
with someone other than a female we see it as the ‘new normal’. Oh come on: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/frogs-keep-mating-with-the-wrong-things/ar-AAXnLCy?ocid=BingNews
19/05/2022: Elon will need to get a much better bargain if he buys Twitter: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/quick-tell-the-investors-twitter-is-a-kindergarten-for-communists-not-there-to-make-profits/
19/05/2022: This ‘pandemic treaty’ will end our national sovereignty and hand control of us over to faceless WHO bureaucrats – not to mention the CCP: Australia set to sign Geneva’s Global Pandemic Treaty | The Spectator Australia & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/another-un-who-power-grab-global-pandemic-treaty-is-a-trillion-dollar-business-deal/
Notice how the WHO has stopped the spread of monkey pox for example: https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/18/monkeypox-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-smallpox-like-virus-detected-in-the-uk
19/05/2022: Morrison on Government:
“It’s time to get the hell out, time for you to get your life back. You’re in
charge again, you’re back in the driver’s seat, you’re sick to death of state
governments and everyone else telling you what to do.” Exactly. You know
that’s all you’ll get with the socialists. A reminder: Penny Wong as Number 2!
“
18/05/2022: Is it a doorway on Mars – sure looks like one but they would have to be tiny people. Nature is full of surprises: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nasa-rover-spots-a-doorway-on-mars/
18/05/2022: When diversity isn’t so good: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/diversity_isnt_always_good.html
18/05/2022: Classic Albo: “I don’t run away from Press Conferences": https://scontent.fmel16-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-4/280784471_1160895668077891_6343683890560388774_n.mp4?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-6&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9zZCJ9&_nc_ohc=7Gdpg9o657kAX_rRC_E&_nc_ht=scontent.fmel16-1.fna&edm=AN6CN6oEAAAA&oh=00_AT8Q1doIlHNZcxT8M0yhvenJI6QvZy_rxyfGyb26L-tDlw&oe=62844D38
18/05/2022: Long-term climate data
such as the
18/05/2022: Choose freedom not socialist control on Saturday. Surely you recall the difference in approach between the Liberal and Labor states over covid (NSW vs Vic for example) . Dictator Dan here in Vic is just Anthony Albanese writ small if we give him the power federally: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/we-re-all-paying-for-a-new-world-of-big-government-20220512-p5akua?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1AzB6yMM3S6fOw4st69MPUCMkkVpoEne8gfh7L3nHFPMMmzK6tL-zI-98#Echobox=1652428920 I liked Tony Abbott’s new motto over the weekend: Vote Lib for “lower taxes, more freedom, better defence”.
17/05/2022: What a gutless incompetent tool Albo is – he won’t release his costings (Thursday) until the Libs can’t reply with any advertising about it. How contemptuous of the Australian people can you get? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/anthony-albanese-grilled-by-reporters-over-transparency-around-budget-deficit-before-scrambling-out-of-press-conference/news-story/878123cb0767e71870605423c041237e
17/05/2022: Food shortages – something real to worry about for once: https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/india-bans-wheat-exports-food-security-threat
17/05/2022: It’s not just his memory: Albo is seriously dumb and just can’t do sums. Why would you want this retard in charge of your country? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10817387/Anthony-Albanese-confuses-minimum-pay-rise-1-hour-1-week.html?ito=social-facebook_Australia&fbclid=IwAR0we-rC_mnPMMqnVsYGBuqPS90n6IlIB-_lW8eH4GxVoqn6mGFY9s_s-YM
17/05/2022: Sky News host Sharri Markson says this election is “neck and neck” and it is not a “certain victory” for Labor. I hope she is right: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/this-election-is-neck-and-neck-sharri-markson/video/b998882dfcaf5b77218361945fad755d
17/05/2022: The
This guy is quite right though – such crimes certainly merit the death penalty, quickly and without undue fanfare: https://www.city-journal.org/execute-buffalo-shooter
16/05/2022: A million-fold increase
in computer speeds would see the human race become redundant: https://scitechdaily.com/laser-pulses-for-ultrafast-signal-processing-could-make-computers-a-million-times-faster/
16/05/2022: Don’t you just love
‘anachronisms’? eg: https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/ancient-wheel-0010997?fbclid=IwAR1cGl2FJYQTXLBHFT4O3dF8HKdOPfEsy8iMFyRyOXlUMVP76VrQZ3ItmZE
16/05/2022: That YouGov poll the other day alarmed me too but with a sample size of 125 per electorate it is just a nonsense – besides who answers the phone to these anonymous people any more? Labor voters apparently, probably because they are more credulous. The election will be decided by those ‘undecided’ voters who certainly don’t vote early. Besides, as the Lib’s ‘campaign opening’ yesterday shows, Scott still has a few tricks up his sleeve: https://www.news.com.au/national/voters-should-take-new-poll-predicting-labor-victory-with-a-pinch-of-salt/video/d05cec9c519b9ac22d2a7f5a3f84baf6
16/05/2022: “This pandemic treaty is the greatest power grab any of us has seen in our lifetime”, Neil Oliver. If you did not know, we are rushing to sign up to yet another international treaty ceding our sovereignty to unelected international bureaucrats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gafV6YhhnAQ
15/05/2022:
15/05/2022: 45 years: Gone for a very long walk indeed: https://indefiniteleave.com.au/story-john-the-highway-man/?fbclid=IwAR3LspqrjpCuyOTPAmjPvhty1EAkvd2I2GtKeAQVelXR0NPON8oJ0gxQ-h8
15/05/2022: Seriously worrying: Are the Covid vaccines killing people over time? The data suggests yes: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/are-the-covid-vaccines-killing-people-over-time-the-data-suggests-yes/
15/05/2022: That Bastard Albanese? A man who still lies on his electoral nomination form that he doesn’t know who his own father is - even though he has explained extensively to the ABC that he does and has met him and now claims to be Italian - is not fit to be PM: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/albanese-now-openly-italian-good-thing-for-the-court-of-disputed-returns-to-know.html & https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/compare-contrast-albaneses-electoral-nomination-form-dated-15422-with-what-he-told-the-abc.html NB: Several years ago (You remember?) every other ‘dual citizen’ had to resign &/or repudiate their other ‘citizenship’ or they were not eligible to hold office – but not Albo apparently.
14/05/2022: A magic weight-loss pill? Maybe not. I know that for me (most folks I suspect) it's always too many calories: https://doctorbuzz.substack.com/p/a-new-drug-will-help-you-shed-50?s=w
14/05/2022:
14/05/2022: ‘Too dumb to be PM’ - Of course this is true Michael Kroger – the guy can hardly talk and can certainly not hold a fact in his head for a minute. You would have to be as dumb as dog s—t yourself to vote for such a Bozo. My guess is that the huge ‘undecided’ mob (27% at least) are not that dumb: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/michael_kroger_says_albanese_is_too_dumb_to_be_prime_minister And have you thought for a minute about the nightmares life would be like under a Labor-Greens Government. Here’s just two examples: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/labor_is_locking_up_cattle_stations_and_turning_them_into_carbon_farms & https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/aussie_manufacturers_are_shutting_factories_because_of_expensive_and_unstable_energy
14/05/2022: “Keeping you safe and sorting out the lies is your job” (not Twitter’s), Bill Maher. We have always been surrounded by lies and propaganda of one sort or another. Each ‘side’ will always say that the other’s ‘lies’ are ‘false’. Up to now you had (and were allowed) to make up your own mind – a difficult process I admit, but your essential freedom to choose; now Facebook, Twitter, Google etc can do that onerous chore for you. Some thoughts from Victor David Hanson to make you wonder: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-imagine-unimaginable
13/05/2022: You know the world has gone completely mad when Madonna gives birth to a tree: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/05/11/madonna-scanned-her-whole-body-for-charity-including-her-you-know-n1597043 You can even ‘win’ a 3D model of her vagina: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/madonna-selling-3d-model-of-her-vagina-in-nft-graphic-auction/news-story/d5af9f9f06025440ce61aa33ecb1e87c & Yes, it’s true: https://motherofcreation.xyz/
13/05/2022: Do we want to become like
13/05/2022: Good advice, “Never trust people who are called experts by others or who call themselves experts. Almost all have an agenda. People should question everything they are told, especially if the source is the media, the government, entertainers, or educators” : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/why_does_anyone_continue_to_treat_people_as_experts_when_they_are_so_consistently_wrong.html
13/05/2022: The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates yet we have wasted billions and lost our precious freedoms over them – all for nothing! https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-evidence-keeps-pouring-in-showing-the-utter-failure-of-all-covid-mandates/
12/05/2022: A New Knee: As you may know I have been having trouble with my left knee (especially) for quite some time – around nine years in fact. I have tried just about everything to make it better as the posts I Kneed You, A Cure for Knee Pain, & Knee Cure News will make clear to you, but finally it became too much and I just had to ‘bite the bullet’ so to speak and go for a complete replacement. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/12/a-new-knee/
12/05/2022: "The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks." - C. S. Lewis.
12/05/2022: May have to get one of these jet-packs as I am certainly not walking up mountains as quickly or easily as I once did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLrVxEJ7pZ8
12/05/2022: The perfect murder - if only he had hired an excavator: https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-carolina-heart-attack-killed
12/05/2022: Personally I just can’t
believe the polls – an Albanese Government would be an economic disaster, just
as the Andrews Government has been for
09/05/2022: Holy Cow: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/science/helicopter-catches-space-rocket-booster/video/fa8c73c26517148012e6a8ca397e937b
09/05/2022: New
09/05/2022: Ask yourself: Do we want a repeat of these clowns – and a leader even worse than Ju-Liar? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-tony-windsor-rob-oakeshott-reject-independent-chaos-fears/news-story/6e5c831a98ea96eed8c80d560598733e
09/05/2022: How
07/05/2022: What if we have been profoundly wrong about children: https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/05/05/what-if-weve-been-profoundly-wrong/
For example: https://freemansperspective.com/children-must-be-made-to-work/
07/05/2022: Should we have a nuclear
war over
07/05/2022: Lakes Entrance: It’s
lovely to take a day off during the warmer months and spend it driving up and
back to Lakes Entrance (Gippsland). Because of the awful fence they have now
built down the middle of the road between
A refreshing walk across the bridge at Lakes to look at the beach and study the bird-life is just about de rigeur but mostly we go up so we can buy a heap of fresh school prawns from the fishing boat there. They usually cost around $25 a kilo but they are the very best prawns you have never eaten. We always by a few kilos so we can have a few really good feeds over the next few months. Somehow we never buy enough and always run our before the next summer! Della and I managed to eat a whole kilo between us for tea! https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/07/lakes-entrance/
They are so much more delicious than the ‘cardboard’ prawns you are used to
eating from the supermarket or fish shop. They take my mind back to when I was
a small boy growing up around the shores of
07/05/2022: A print of this painting has been on my bedroom wall for maybe 75 years. I had never been able to determine what it was before but now (thanks to the magic of Google – and Della) I know it is by this guy George Philibert Charles Maroniez 1865-1933. I can see that I can buy a hand-painted reproduction (not this painting) for A$433.85 delivered which I think I will go with – though I would dearly love a better copy of the one I have which my mother must have cut out of a magazine when she was decorating my bedroom before I was born. https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Georges-Philibert-Charles-Maroniez/Sunset.html He did many similar paintings some of which can be bought for $5-10K. I may also consider that. It is unlikely that they will reduce in value after all.
07/05/2022: Interesting thoughts about ‘the spectrum’: https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/is-autism-really-a-spectrum/
07/05/2022: Yes, Pauline is right about Albo’s ‘housing plan’. It is a plan to remove home ownership, not to enable it: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/26876/pauline-hanson-is-right-labor-housing-plan-is-great-reset-down-under/
07/05/2022: Can’t afford to buy in
07/05/2022: More bad news about mRNA vaccines (like Pfizer and Adenovirus vector vaccines like Astra Zenica) - stuff that was concealed all along behind a push to conform. This has so harmed the traditional vaccine approach which is what should have been used all along. Too much new stuff rushing at us from all directions: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/pfizergate-new-documents-confirm-vaccine-goes-to-liver-spleen-and-ovaries-in-animal-studies/
PS: We are apparently still seeing that ‘excess mortality’ - in younger groups: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/shock-video-equity-investment-executive-dowd-excess-deaths-running-around-20-first-quarter-2022/
07/05/2022: Sterilisation yet? Don’t I remember safe, effective and available contraception happening somewhere back in the 60s? Did I miss something? Isn’t there a huge unmet demand (from already sterile couples) to adopt ‘unwanted’ babies and to provide them with very good lives – and hasn’t this been the case in fact for generations? I can agree to a ‘morning-after’ pill (especially if women have been raped), even to procedures up to say a ‘fetal heartbeat’ point (ie about six weeks in – usually plenty of time to find out whether you are pregnant surely? - If you did not know, not just if you changed your mind) but there comes a time (then) when the child within also must be deemed to deserve protection (from homicide) just as other human beings do. A baby (let’s please call ‘it’ that) can survive from around 20 weeks (if born). This will become earlier with the perfection of ‘artificial wombs’. After that point surely only the lives of the two people concerned are relevant (not ‘wishes’ or ‘convenience’). I get that women ought not be forced to continue with a pregnancy if it will actually kill them, but then maybe often the baby can be induced and raised rather than being chopped into pieces and killed (for preference). The ‘pro-abortionists’ have to move away from the issue of ‘women’s rights’ and consider ‘human rights’ (ie the rights of the child – and father too) and face the fact that what we are arguing about is whether any form of murder (Yes it is) should be legal: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/female-sterilization-options-roe-decision
06/05/2022: It was
not an ambush: Rachel Bexendale & Greg Brown in the
Australian today: “Ahead of a lunchtime speech to the Australian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry in which his team had indicated it planned to speak of
building upon Labor legacies such as the NDIS and after he made reference on
Wednesday to Labor’s ‘six-point plan’ Mr Albanese was asked to outline the six
points.
“The
six points are what we will do, in terms of, was outlined by Bill Shorten,”
(sic) Mr Albanese replied.” As I said before, ‘Not fit to shovel shit upon a
06/05/2022: The war on childhood – ain’t it the case: “The ancients sacrificed children to the fires of Moloch while progressives sacrifice them to their passion for wokeness”: http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/04/the-lefts-war-on-childhood.html
06/05/2022: Andrews’
deficits – did you take a serious look? He took Napthines’s $17 billlion
surplus to an $18 billion deficit in one year and has since then nearly
doubled it. He has doubled the spend on public servants (again from $17 billion
to $34 billion – easy to see where some savings can be made there folks, and
how to get rid of the deficit!) We now have (from no debt) a whopping $167
billion debt, already $10 billion in interest payments per year – god knows how
much in future as interest rates soar, as they must. We simply no longer have
the money to build new power stations (even though we have not built one since
1983, probably in your entire lifetime) and soon they will all have to close
because they are worn out – and then where will the electricity come from – from
‘extracting sunbeams from cucumbers’ as Gulliver observed? We need to build
four simultaneously - imagine where the money or the workforce for that could
come from. There will be blackouts for the rest of your lifetime. And you are
maybe thinking of electing an Albanese government which will be worse –worse
even than Ju-Liar’s and dominated by the same ‘Teals’ and Greens as hers was.
This man cannot even name the key points of his darling NDIS scheme – an area
of the budget his last awful Labor government under Ju-Liar thrust on us out of
nothing, but which now consumes more than Defence! If you can’t actually
explain the barest details of your largest spending area of your budget you are
“unfit to shovel shit upon a
06/05/2022: Mass starvation –
that’s what the Greens want (No animals, no fishing or fish farming,
‘organics’, an end to scientific agriculture…sure that will work out really
well): https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/green-nightmares.php
06/05/2022: ‘2,000 Mules’ is out.
Surely after seeing this no-one will be able to deny that the
05/05/2022: So you want to skydive from space. Alan Eustace jumped from 40 km up in 2014 – and lived: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a39877685/how-to-skydive-from-space/
05/05/2022: Can you still remember when our (scarce enough) water resources were used to boost agricultural production – and foreign exchange. (That's enough water to irrigate 4,000 acres - 20 square km by - the way): https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/labor_sells_huge_water_licence_to_alleged_ccp_linked_company_after_one_day_of_consideration
05/05/2022: Should you ‘be kind’? “The Nazis, in one of the great ironies of history, believed that what separated the Aryans from other races was their kindness to one another and to animals… While kindness is the slogan, the Trojan Horse of the ideology is the triple strategy of equivocating speech with violence, subjectivism and the weaponising of mental health… This is why statues are being pulled down around the world; why people with what were, until about five years ago, moderate views are called bigots; why supporters of free speech are called Nazis” A very thoughtful essay: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/05/some-harsh-words-about-the-cult-of-kindness/
05/05/2022: You can have the crippling debt of the NDIS (up $10 billion every year for the next four according to the budget, ie more than the projected total cost when it was introduced less than 10 years ago) or you can have this – or just maybe there is another way. (‘Everyone’ works). Strangely I remember that in the 1950s when one could have expected that there would have been a larger proportion of ‘invalids’ because of WW2 but it was lower than 3% instead of the greater than 10% it now is – and that’s not to add in the large cohort on ‘unemployment’, ‘supporting parents’ etc: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor-
04/05/2022: DIY Tents: In this post I thought I would pull together my ‘adventures’ with making my own tents/shelters over the years. My experience has evolved from utilising simple tarps/ponchos as shelters to creating a variety of tent ‘prototypes’ in Tyvek often followed by a lighter silnylon model (which I then take up the bush to try out).
I have learned a lot in the DIY process which I highly recommend to you. It will save you lots of money and (finally) result in a better shelter than you would otherwise own from a camping store. It is also very likely to be lighter and more functional, as well as being easier to put up and harder to fall down! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/03/diy-tents/
04/05/2022: How many times do we have to prove there is no climate emergency: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/03/a-sense-of-proportion/
04/05/2022:
04/05/2022: Stop worrying about whether your kid is gay – is s/he even human? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-is-not-an-onion-headline/
04/05/2022: ‘We’ are at war with
03/05/2022: A Cool Dry Back: The Vaucluse Cool Dry Frame. This looks like such a good idea and may well work. It is a open hexagonal frame intended to sit your pack of from your back an inch or so to allow air flow and (hopefully) prevent that nemesis of all backpackers, a wet back. You will have to pay for a dry back. It is US$97.95 plus shipping (May 2022).
Rather more than the $3 model I tried out here A DIY Dry Back Hiking Pack (which also worked by the way, but it was a bit awkward). I bought some approx 3 mm carbon fibre tubes intending to make a lighter, slightly more functional model but it has not happened yet. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/01/a-cool-dry-back/
03/05/2022: Pegasus – scarier than a flying horse: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/pegasus-spyware/14604/ & https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220502-spain-says-mobile-phones-of-pm-and-defence-minster-infected-by-pegasus-malware
03/05/2022: How prescient Margaret Thatcher was 40 years ago: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/40-years-ago-maggie-thatchers-brilliant-warning-on-lefty-teachers-indoctrinating-children-.html
03/05/2022: It is hard to imagine anyone worse than the Greens, but here they are – and they may well determine who is the Government after the election: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/greg-sheridan-brilliant-on-the-threat-from-simons-wealthy-white-women-collective.html
03/05/2022: Just so many mysteries in life: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/ive-had-a-penis-on-my-arm-for-six-years-now-i-finally-feel-like-a-real-man/news-story/083b66b0499a65a6f7c84dc2b79db875
02/05/2022: Wow! How promising is this: https://www.studyfinds.org/plant-virus-may-cure-cancer/
02/05/2022: Yes,
one should ‘blame the victim’. It is a person’s behaviour which determines his/her life. Little else (but
luck). The
Invictus
William Ernest Henley - 1849-1903
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
02/05/2022: Those future food shortages just got a bit more real. You only have to look at what has happened in Sri Lanka to see that ‘organic’ would mean widespread starvation ie approx 30% less food world-wide: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/never-let-crisis-go-waste-samantha-power-celebrates-fertilizer-shortages-will-force-farmers-transition-natural-solutions-video/
Further, Get ready to give up lamb and beef: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/01/the-world-has-gone-bonkers/
02/05/2022: Not news really but this Chinese virologist confirms the CCP deliberately released the virus and did so in order to destroy Trump and the American economy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-bombshell-exclusive-dr-li-meng-yan-says-china-released-covid-19-intentionally-not-accident/
01/05/2022:
01/05/2022: DVOs are issued too easily
without any attempt to see the other side – sometimes they actually exacerbate
the problem. You would think that the party they are being taken out
against would have some chance of defending themselves at the outset and/or
that the allegations being made have some truth in them – but this is not so. I
know about this as we had an unstable neighbour last year issue one against us
because they did not want to pay their share for a dividing fence destroyed by
a sudden flood event – even though it was covered by insurance. The proveably
false statements on it (which were not investigated) could have even resulted
in their being gaoled (if we proceeded to a court trial) but in the end we
negotiated a settlement with them when they realized that and that they would
suffer enormous financial harm if they persisted. The whole process anyway cost
many times more than a new fence would have and delayed the replacement fence
for many months. Also we were denied access to our firearms for
01/05/2022: After Wentworth & etc where are conservatives going to pick up seats to win government? (Perhaps where Labor is losing them in the outer suburbs). Or is it ‘The Deluge’. Anyway, God save us from Penny Wrong and Adam Bandit. NB: “Values aren’t buses … They’re not supposed to get you anywhere. They’re supposed to define who you are” : https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/28/a-farewell-to-sharma/ & https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/wenworth-diary/2022/04/vote-with-one-hand-hold-nose-with-the-other/
30/04/2022: Clever - Printed Circuit Bird Synthesizers: https://laughingsquid.com/printed-circuit-bird-synthesizers/
30/04/2022: President Zelensky Insulted By Biden’s Offer Of Only $33 Billion In Weapons When He Gave The Taliban $86 Billion: https://babylonbee.com/news/ukraine-insulted-by-bidens-offer-of-33-billion-in-weapons-when-he-gave-the-taliban-86-billion
30/04/2022: Love them or hate them, the Libs are good economic managers: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/australias-economic-indicators-amongst-worlds-major-economies.html
30/04/2022: When the government creates a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ you don’t need to think ‘conspiracy’ is just a ‘theory’: https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398907.php
29/04/2022: What a Bogler: I just bought a new trowel which I am very happy with, a Bogler Ultralight Trowel. Mine weighs 13.45 grams on my scales. It is made from (hardened) aircraft-grade aluminium. It is intelligently designed so it does not wear a hole in your hand which is a decided improvement on most such things so that if you ever need to use it to dig for water in a dry river bend or behind the dunes or dig up tree roots for water & etc you may actually not die of thirst (or bleed to death!) before you succeed. Also good for digging for fish bait (worms, beetle larvae, etc.) Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/04/28/what-a-bogler/
29/04/2022: Back to
29/04/2022: Elon Musk’s reflection on
the direction politics has been going –
29/04/2022: Just look at how much
coal
29/04/2022: When I read in the papers Hanson would be preferencing against the Liberals I thought she had lost the plot…then I read her explanation. Time to wake up conservatives and be true to yourselves instead of trying to chase the socialists down their own rat holes : https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/one-nation-preferences-targeting-left-leaning-linos-like-trent-zimmerman-tim-wilson-etc.html
28/04/2022:
28/04/2022: Peter Dutton is right, ‘If you want peace, prepare for war’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/26/igitur-qui-desiderat-pacem-praeparet-bellum/
28/04/2022: I don’t think I will be swapping any of my Landies (with 1000km range plus jerry cans) for 350 km: https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-land-rover
28/04/2022: In praise of Longfellow: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/04/longfellow-wrongfellow/
Henry
Under
a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy
stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice
Singing in
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
27/04/2022: I would probably prefer a .410 shotgun-cane myself but this might do in a pinch: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BYDC5ZL/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07BYDC5ZL&linkCode=as2&tag=helentag-20&linkId=b539432b77c44daace90749f71b7208d
27/04/2022:
27/04/2022: Understanding the importance of coal: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/rafe-champion-guest-post-tasmania-burning-oil-in-prolonged-wind-drought/
27/04/2022: How long before all of us live this long: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094630648/the-worlds-oldest-person-japans-kane-tanaka-dies-at-age-119
26/04/2022: After twenty years and
many billions on ‘immortality research’ we are still dying: https://bigthink.com/health/immortality-race-to-live-forever/
26/04/2022: Let’s talk about the immense benefits (to life on earth) of increased CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/23/increased-plant-productivity-the-first-key-benefit-of-atmospheric-co2-enrichment/
26/04/2022: I agree with Rowan Dean, “When asked what people wanted of their leaders at the next election, overwhelmingly the answer was ‘to be left alone’” : https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/23/the-libs-are-only-around-45-socialist-while-labor-is-90/
26/04/2022: “Not a single ‘environmental prediction’ of the last 52 years has come true”. Time we stopped paying any attention to these loonies and just got on with it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/24/earth-days-failed-predictions-of-52-years-ago-the-amazing-environmental-improvements-that-have-occurred-since/
25/04/2022: The CCP certainly does
endorse Albanese (as the Lib ‘attack ads’
25/04/2022: “It turns out that the impact human emissions on the CO₂-concentration is relatively small. In his calculations, only 17 ppm (less than 15%) of the total increase is due to human CO₂. The vast majority of the increase is the result of the increased global temperature” : https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/22/why-is-the-co%e2%82%82-concentration-rising/
25/04/2022: Strange bedfellows:
Putin’s soldiers celebrate conquest of Mariupol shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/putins-soldiers-celebrate-conquest-of-mariupol-shouting-allahu-akbar/
25/04/2022: Fighting above our weight
– remembering the
24/04/2022: Maybe Elon will manage to
bring down the Big Tech conspiracy to rule the world: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-hiding-dont-forget-dr-shivas-mindblowing-lawsuit-big-tech/
24/04/2022: The dragon is no longer sleeping: “The simple, chilling truth is that the CCP is doing everything in its power – mostly via economics, technology, diplomacy, and the media, not yet via military power – to destroy our way of life”: https://richardsonpost.com/robert-spalding/26730/chinas-rules-of-war/
24/04/2022: As if you didn’t know, “Fossil fuels are making Earth a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people”: https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/earth-day-truth-fossil-fuels-make?r=5c3gj&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
24/04/2022: Tetanus vaccines last at least ten years (and up to 60) but the fake covid ‘vaccine’ does not even last two months (and seems to be even doing a lot of harm, possibly more than the disease): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/tetanus-vaccines-work-so-well-we-may-not-need-the-ten-year-boosters-only-a-30-year-one/
23/04/2022: Important new information for men: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/04/21/bacteria-prostate-cancer/5541650549768/
23/04/2022: Jennifer has a very sound
point about sea level fall here. You only have to open your eyes just about
anywhere to see it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/21/washed-away-a-short-film-about-sea-level-fall/
23/04/2022: Electricity prices have doubled. Without coal (or nuclear) we may not be able to afford electricity in the future. These green crazies pushing this insane agenda must be stopped. Build new baseload now: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/australian-electricity-price-doubles-ceo-explains-prices-up-due-to-lack-of-coal-power/
23/04/2022: Viv Forbes is totally right – we must win the war against the ‘green slime’ now or be lost forever: https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/26698/its-time-for-australia-to-vote-for-change/
Just a ‘for example’: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/cost_of_net_zero_500_000_jobs_and_a_massive_hit_to_the_economy
22/04/2022: Sounds very promising: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-tumors-partially-dont.html
22/04/2022: You don’t say? So, no climate crisis then: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/20/2021-state-of-the-climate-report-empirical-observations-show-no-sign-of-climate-crisis-snow-cover-stable-sea-ice-levels-recovering-no-change-in-storm-activity/
Even Greta agrees: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/20/a-puppet-slip-of-the-tongue-did-she-really-just-say-that-monday-mirthiness/
22/04/2022: I find this quite
sickening – a harbinger of the West moving to adopt
22/04/2022: In
20/04/2022: I have long noticed that the left seems to want a return to some ‘golden’ past (such as medieval times - or anyway pre-industrial). This Rouseauean ‘noble savage’ nonsense is really quite dangerous. The Agrarian Revolution, industrialization and capitalism has issued in an era of incomparable benefits to mankind: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/the_medieval_era_is_suddenly_calling_out_to_leftists.html
20/04/2022:
20/04/2022: Thank goodness someone (Katherine Deves) is willing to stand against transgender nonsense. (and well said Jacinta Price). “Does anyone actually believe that men change into women and women into men who can give birth, that the Earth is burning, the seas are rising, and we’ll all perish unless we cover our faces with strips of cotton?” (David Mamet in American Occupation): https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/deserve-to-have-a-voice-controversial-liberal-party-candidate-katherine-deves-finds-support/news-story/06db84bb658225363a96a368fa520939
19/04/2022: Nice bit of gear. I see some civilian uses for them too: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/04/15/pentagon-to-build-nuclear-microreactor-to-power-far-flung-bases/
19/04/2022: The truth is hard to take
- “
19/04/2022: Shanghai again. Something
very strange is happening here. The Cantonese have always been the soft underbelly
of the communist regime. Maybe that’s what’s going on - a
19/04/2022: George Washington: ‘Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master…Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth…The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments…The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves…’
18/04/2022: Ah Bess, what a great lady you are: “In contrast to the current crop of pygmies we have as world leaders, she is the last remaining island of permanence and stability in our age. She will leave a yawning chasm when she is gone”: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/miranda-devine-queen-elizabeth-ii-a-giant-among-world-leaders/news-story/dff90a02372dc4ccf43848cccafe4030
18/04/2022: Obviously not farm kids: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/15/children-farm-animal-same-as-pets/8071650031160/
18/04/2022: Just saying, but I suspect castration (or death) would work better as a deterrent (and be a fairer punishment): https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18287591/child-rapists-escape-punishment-apologise/
18/04/2022: When Age Poll discovers you are a dead duck: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/ninesmhage-poll-finds-voters-have-woken-up-to-therapeutic-albanese-the-hollow-man.html
17/04/2022: New tricks in electronics: https://scitechdaily.com/the-future-of-electronics-new-fermi-arcs-discovered/
17/04/2022:
17/04/2022: I want my country back too. For example, our feed and grain store in Morwell (MacRoberts - a third generation business which heretofore had not missed a single day) has been closed for weeks because of a completely spurious useless onerous vaccine mandate: https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/i-want-my-country-back/
17/04/2022: Too true: Peta Credlin's great expose on Anthony Albanese: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/peta-credlins-great-expose-on-anthony-albanese.html
16/04/2022: Watch out – carnivorous horses: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/carnivorous-horses-0016638
16/04/2022: Yes, time to take cobalt out of lithium batteries: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/13/cobalt-free-lithium-ion-auto-batteries/1731649255014/
16/04/2022: Modelling vs reality: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/15/roaring-and-screaming/
16/04/2022: So, not enough that the cops let the protesters in but they were led in by undercover Feds: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/14/yet-another-conspiracy-theory-comes-true-at-least-20-feds-embedded-at-capitol-on-jan-6-n1589815
15/04/2022: Taking a balloon ride to the edge of space. Same view – much more affordable: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/12/space-perspective-unveils-spaceship-neptune/4201649795426/
15/04/2022: “You can put lipstick on
a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.” Besides, Albo could not lie
straight in bed. Unless Labor can come up with something/someone better
than this before May 21 they will spend another three years in opposition (but
God save us from Penny Wong!): https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/each_way_albo_s_top_ten_political_each_way_bets
15/04/2022: Trust the expert: https://www.rebelnews.com/leading_australian_cardiologist_slams_push_for_mrna_vaccines
15/04/2022: The green energy transition which will not work. Already we have backup household generator/s here at Jeeralang Junction because we regularly lose power (about once a week for some time, and at least once a year for days!) This has been brought about because of the failure to replace Hazelwood with reliable base load generation (coal/nuclear – there is currently no other alternative). The situation will get worse as other coal generators close (Liddell, Yallourn etc). Then we will have brown-outs and blackouts everywhere very, very often. This situation will continue for years as it takes years to build base load generators even after the decision has been made – if it is ever made. The lunatics have been and still are running the asylum. This has to stop: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/guest-post-by-rafe-champion-energy-security-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff/
14/04/2022: Albanese – so smart: “Solar panels on the roof charging your vehicle overnight.” Thank goodness the Labor Party has a leader as useless as this guy – else they might have some chance of winning. Even that old Leftie Tom Uren described him as a ‘young Trot’ in his autobiography. Look, Albanese is an unreconstructed commie whatever ‘conservative’ disguises he may try to put on. Worse than that (even) is that he is clearly an idiot who struggles to talk: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/04/therapeutic-albaneses-solar-panels-charging-the-electric-car-overnight.html
14/04/2022: What a great idea – and to think, once I didn’t believe in censorship: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dont-say-gay-florida-raise-kids-homosexual_n_6245acc7e4b03516d42d0400
14/04/2022: I suspect these 1,000 dead athletes (including Shane Warne) are only the tip of the iceberg – what we don’t know (for sure - yet) is whether ‘the cure is worse than the complaint’. Hopefully it is not, but remember this, ‘Hope’ was the last of the evils to be released from Pandora’s box: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/the-year-of-collapsing-athletes-890-athletes-collapse-or-die-and-counting/
14/04/2022: Social ‘experiments’ have
real-world consequences. Vote for the Left and you will get economic chaos
(as the figures out from the
13/04/2022: Sustainable nuclear fusion edges closer and closer: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-shatter-record-for-the-amount-of-energy-produced-during-a-controlled-sustained-fusion-reaction/
13/04/2022: Putin’s energy policy and
strategy over the last 20 years makes him look a lot smarter than most of NATO:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-meigs/germany-russia-energy/
13/04/2022: The Bee is right – this trans evil must end: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-groomer-9-things-to-look-for
13/04/2022: 536 AD: Something like this can happen again any day and no amount of ‘global warming’ hype or hysteria will have any effect on it whatever – imagine across China alone 80% of the population died: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/climate-cataclysm-001360?fbclid=IwAR3L-CxaiHq4Pji3gD7TK5Sx1-HM0xGywdoIIy-xvSU784YBozVPd_t8NPE
12/04/2022: It is not getting warmer stupid. It has not been for thousands of years. This was always a commie lie. Let’s all move on with our lives, build some new power stations, buy an SUV and an aircon and have a nice holiday somewhere via jet travel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/11/new-study-arctic-was-much-warmer-6000-years-ago-90-of-glaciers-ice-caps-smaller-than-present-or-absent/
12/04/2022: The Touch of Contagion.
One thing I really liked about ‘the pandemic’ was the way people stopped
touching you. I have always been stand-offish from when I was a child, so this suited
me just fine. I value my personal space and am very choosy about who is welcome
in it. My wife of 50 years for example. My (grown up) children on special
occasions. Pretty much no-one else. I really valued not having to shake hands.
I have always hated that ‘trial of strength’ thing which so many men
(particularly) want to turn it into, and my increasing finger (and thumb)
arthritis has made it mostly a painful and unpleasant custom. The faux hugging
which (what?) morphed out of English soccer/gay culture (I don’t know) I have
always found utterly repellent. I rarely hug (anyone) so why I should want to
hug (pretty much) total strangers or simply acquaintances (when I would pretty
much
12/04/2022: Steve Kates is quite right – if we want to throw our country away we should elect the (pro Chinese) communist Albanese who will flood the nation with illegal immigrants and so weaken our defence we will soon not have a country at all (after he has wrecked it some more with other crazy leftie/welfare & etc policies): https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/11/are-australians-stupid-enough-to-elect-our-own-version-of-joe-biden/
12/04/2022: There has
never been so much media, it appears to be so much more live and immediate than
in the past, but the Left’s ‘march through the institutions’ has destroyed its credibility,
making it almost worthless – a vehicle which could have been
so transformational in human betterment lies in the gutter. The average
(conservative) citizen’s trust of the media is unlikely to be very different
from what we see in the
11/04/2022: On Peter Walsh’s Death on this day in 2015: He was Finance Minister in the Hawke Government. He was possibly the last economically literate Labor leader. Comparing him to the commie rabble running the party now evokes the cry, ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.’(Dante)‘Walsh was not selective in his hatred of rent-seekers and protectionists: He despised trade union leaders as much as he despised farm and business leaders for their special interest pleading. And he was just as withering in his critiques of the environmental movement’s anti-growth agenda….He abhorred the rising influence of the environmental movement on the Labor Party and wrote that “since the 1980s Australian Labor Party policy has been incrementally hijacked by well-heeled, self-indulgent, morally vain and would-be authoritarian activists whom the media often describes as the intelligentsia”.’ From his obit in the Australian.
11/04/2022: E-ink displays for your phone are just around the corner promising huge improvements in battery life: https://newatlas.com/electronics/e-ink-kaleido-3-epaper/
11/04/2022: Maybe not so bad after all - Scientists Finally Have Clues About What We See When We Die: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a39454993/dying-brain-waves/
11/04/2022: The 1911 9mm is a classic gun for self-defence – why can’t we all own one here in Oz: https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/dear-9-mm-1911-i-you/
11/04/2022: One thing Putin did right: https://www.popsci.com/space/astronaut-mark-vande-hei-russian-soyuz-landing/
10/04/2022: Mysteries of aluminium foil: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-aluminum-foil-has-a-shiny-and-a-dull-side/ar-AAKizNQ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3a604cdb7bb2495fb21b9344e709bb69
10/04/2022: Private space travel (at US$55 million a ticket). I guess I won’t be going soon: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/08/spacex-axiom-private-astronaut-international-space-station/5351649362926/
10/04/2022: She’ll be right mate: In
2021 coral cover, snow cover, forest cover, rainfall and river inflows
increased: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/in_2021_coral_cover_snow_cover_forest_cover_rainfall_and_river_inflows_increased
10/04/2022: We have needed to implement something like this in Oz for nearly fifty years. Let’s do it now: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2022/04/how-the-uk-combats-activism-in-the-classroom/
See Also: Why Australian Teachers Preach Green Rubbish: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2022/04/why-australian-teachers-can-preach-green-rubbish/
09/04/2022: This could be the biggest (and smallest) discovery of the C21st: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60993523
09/04/2022: Aussies are not convinced by climate alarmism, so let’s ditch it: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/no_surprise_72_of_aussies_say_cheap_reliable_power_is_more_important_than_net_zero
09/04/2022:
09/04/2022: Probably illegal even to
say so but long since time we recriminalised non-hetero sexuality in public –
as well as its advocacy and support. This woke agenda has already done enormous
damage to society (as I long predicted it would). This evil cant be allowed to
continue to destroy our children and our society any
08/04/2022: Another threat to diesel supplies – this will have vast downstream effects if it plays out: https://richardsonpost.com/tyler-durden/26229/gas-stations-will-run-dry-catastrophic-scenario-for-diesel-emerging-according-to-worlds-biggest-energy-traders/
08/04/2022: Everything about the pandemic was BS but we just had to destroy our economy, our future prosperity, our freedom – you name it – and it should never end: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/unvaxxed-australians-cant-leave-the-country-because-of-a-who-treaty-were-protecting-the-world/
08/04/2022: Who knows what the truth
is about what is happening in the
08/04/2022: Folks have been in gaol for this for well over a year but now the first accused is acquitted because police invited the invaders into the Capitol building: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/07/first-january-6-defendant-acquitted-n1587832
07/04/2022: Just as global warming
goes away in
07/04/2022: Yes there were war crimes, but why were there: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/04/05/there-were-war-crimes-in-bucha-whether-you-choose-to-believe-it-or-not-n1587045
07/04/2022: What possible reason could there be any more for this draconian restriction. Surely our nation is not a prison colony any more: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/unvaccinated-australians-cant-leave-australia-unless-they-escape-is-that-swim-paddle-or-dingy/
07/04/2022: What’s happening in
06/04/2022: Ultralight Windscreen or Chimney Closure: This is so far a 'proof of concept but it will soon be a new model of my diy ultralight roll-up titanium stove/windscreen and may be incorporated into sections of chimney for my ultralight tent stove as it will be so much easier to roll up - and there is nothing to get lost. We will see.
I will make the tags longer than this. I stupidly cut it off. I also needed to allow another 1/2" of overlap. You can cut the slot with the super-scissors/snip they sell everywhere after you have drilled two 1/8" holes the correct distance apart. I needed to be a bit more careful about this.
Nonetheless I am very pleased with the idea. it is simple yet strong. It would work fine in .05mm foil which is all you would need for a windscreen alone and would make a pot screen less than 10 grams weight.
I think for my 4" high hobo stove three of these tag and slot joiners will make a very solid connection. I can add additional slots so that the stove can fit outside the pot or inside the pot.
A little experimentation has shown me that the .1mm foil is more than strong enough to support the weight of a 2 litre pot full of water. I use an 1100 ml pot. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/04/05/ultralight-windscreen-or-chimney-closure/
06/04/2022: Clearly the Libs are way
ahead on Defence – the big one that really matters (watch
06/04/2022: “With enough demographic change, it is possible for new countries to take the place of old ones, and new countries require new histories.” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/multiculturalism_and_history.html
06/04/2022: ‘Everyone’ is upset about the ‘end of democracy’ in Ukraine but let the real destruction of democracy in the 2020 US election just slip by – but there is vast evidence of a stolen election, millions of votes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/719657/
06/04/2022: 40 years of satellite records show the average temperature almost never varies by more than half a degree, usually by no more than one tenth of a degree – clearly the earth has a thermostat,: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/03/uah-global-temperature-update-for-march-2022-0-15-deg-c/
05/04/2022: It’s the sun stupid: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/27/atmospheric-fingerprint/
05/04/2022: You would hope so anyway:
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/03/a-victim-too-far-how-transgenders-will-bring-down-the-lefty-marxists-who-want-to-destroy-america-n1586542
Anyway better that than this: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/04/02/california-city-approves-program-to-give-trans-non-binary-residents-guaranteed-income-n1586462
05/04/2022: Interesting read - The war on gold: https://richardsonpost.com/harryrichardson/26405/putins-other-war/
05/04/2022: Maybe we just don’t understand Putin’s strategy – an alternative view: http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2022/03/an-unconventional-analysis-of-putins.html
04/04/2022: Some hope this morning
that common sense will prevail: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-orbans-12-year-rule-tight-ballot-overshadowed-by-ukraine-war-2022-04-03/
04/04/2022: Governments (everywhere –
except perhaps
04/04/2022: “But despite his past as a left-wing warrior, the Albanese opposition is playing the small target game (and getting away with it) by “me-too-ing” everything, from nuclear submarines to tax cuts.” – just like Kevin Rudd did too, if you remember. But please remember how, once he was in power all that changed, then morphed into Gillard and the Greens, the whole silly season mess! Let’s vote conservative, then Liberal second with the Left very far down the ticket: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-peta-credlins-sky-doco-explores-how-the-campaign-battle-will-unfold/news-story/842864638dcb6054520e3c3a25fdf92d
Note for example these two (same day)
‘news items’. Albanese wishing us ‘Happy Ramadan’ – thanks a lot for that: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/therapeutic-albanese-wishing-you-all-a-happy-ramadan.html
contrasted with Tony Abbott reflecting on the real achievement and importance
of (yet another) free trade agreement (none of which would ever have happened
under Labor) this time with
04/04/2022: Our greatest PM on the
way forward in the
03/04/2022: I could add a few dot
points to this agenda (to save
03/04/2022: Our best PM on war:
“We have to make the war that’s unthinkable to us for moral reasons,
unthinkable to them for prudential reasons. We who shrink from war because it’s
morally wrong have to make others shrink from war because they’d likely lose”
(delivered three days before the invasion of
03/04/2022: Bushfire management – how the ‘experts’ are so often wrong – and with what disastrous results. The people tasked with protecting our crown lands are effectively destroying them: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/03/academic-expertise-so-thats-what-its-called/
03/04/2022: Scary stuff – our
‘education system at work, “A survey
commissioned by the IPA published last week asked 1000 people “if
Forty six per cent said they would stay and fight, 28 per cent said they would leave the country and 26 per cent were unsure. Just 32 per cent of those aged 18-24 said they would stay and fight and 40 per cent said they would leave the country, 28 per cent said they were unsure.
Slightly more (35 per cent) of those aged 25-34 said they would stay and
fight while 38 per cent said they would leave the country, 27 per cent were
unsure. A clear majority in those age groups therefore indicated they would
either run or were undecided about defending
02/04/2022: Announcement: Liberal
Fact-Checkers Have Ruined April Fools' Day – and a lot else besides. Just
about every day the news headlines sound like April Fools Day: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/01/announcement-liberal-fact-checkers-have-ruined-april-fools-day-n1586136
02/04/2022: Rat Colony Beneath D.C.
Disgusted To
02/04/2022: Le Pen may get over the
line this time – that would be an early swallow: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220329-french-far-right-leader-le-pen-closing-gap-on-macron-polls
02/04/2022: A little war in the
01/04/2022: Ultralight Survival Made Easy: I decided here to update the post The Complete Survival Guide (which you should still read) as it had become a little out-of-date in the three years since I wrote it and I had since written many other useful pieces of advice which I could incorporate in a new post, which this is.
I might have also called it, ‘I tell you we’ll astonish the new chums to see how we travel the land’ after the refrain from the old bush song The Springtime it Brings on the Shearing. (I also mentioned this song in the post Johnny Cakes – which you should try).
And it is a good point because these itinerant C19th bush workers with their swags (or blueys) were wonderful experts at ultralight journeying over the vast distances of the Australian outback which would put to shame any of our current generation. Suppose you wanted to make your own.
I remember reading ‘The Cattle King’ by Ion Idriess when I was a youngster about our great Aussie icon Sidney Kidman – and you should too. You can buy it from Amazon from $8.99. It is just quite wonderful. I believe Nicole is a remote descendant. I think Gina now owns much of the remaining Kidman ’empire’ – another wonderful ‘self-made Aussie hero, so it remains in Australian hands.
Even as an old man (like me) he would regularly leave Adelaide with just his saddle horse, pack horse and his cattle dog and within a few short weeks have crossed the entire continent through the trackless (often waterless) wilderness to the Gulf of Carpentaria – all by himself, and did so many, many times. Old hands still tell of how he would just appear in the darkness sitting by their campfire as they yarned over the billy. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/29/ultralight-survival-made-easy/
01/04/2022: Why you should not try to rob a gun store: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/security-camera-captures-gun-store-owner-opening-fire-on-two-thieves-who-came-in-shooting-video/
01/04/2022: Heinlein’s crazy years – the
01/04/2022: A Missing Link - I have often wondered at some similarities of ideas amongst the Pre-Socratics and both Buddhism and Confucianism. No we learn that there was indeed intellectual contact at the time (c250 BC): https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/greek-buddhism-0016584
01/04/2022: What is truth? I don’t know Scott, you described Zelensky who came to power in a coup in 2014 and has recently outlawed opposition parties as a ‘beacon of democracy’ but figures seem to show what the Russian people are 80% behind Vlad Putin: https://extra.cw/putins-popularity-up-since-start-of-ukraine-conflict-poll/
31/03/2022: Hunting Tales: You will find many, many posts in this blog which mention hunting (particularly sambar deer hunting which has been a passion of mine for much of my adult life) but there are many more which are relevant to the art and skill of hunting.
I have been a hunter since I could walk over 70 years ago now as were several generations of my family before me. Hunting is a great good. It has been valued as such by most of the people who have ever lived for over a million years now. You can ‘deconstruct ‘ values all you like – it would be mighty strange indeed if they were wrong!
Some other posts which you might explore which are relevant to hunting are my many posts about woodslore and survival, my posts about DIY gear, some of my canoeing posts…often other posts contain anecdotes about hunting or relevant advice.
These posts will not be your ‘conventional’ hunting yarns with a dead critter at the end. While that might be the ‘end’ of hunting. It is only a small part of this great sport. They will very often be something quit different from what you are used to, but I hope you enjoy them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/28/hunting-tales/
31/03/2022: Energy from nothing – what we have long thought impossible has apparently been done NB: his may one day work for your phone but it is unlikely to ever be grid scale. However, it does reveal that nature still has many surprises in wait for us: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene
31/03/2022: “The IPCC statement that “The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible” appears to be true: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/28/the-100000-year-problem-and-earths-chaotic-non-linear-climate/
In a similar vein, the climate past is far from settled: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/30/climate-past-far-from-settled-7-major-temperature-reconstructions-find-no-agreement/
31/03/2022: “Of the 32 (kindergarten) students I teach 20 of them have come out as LGBTQIA and have come out to me” – I seriously question the ‘right’ of teachers to discuss such private (and adult) issues with their students. I think I would be more in favour of removing such teachers from the classroom altogether. Surely there is no sane society where such matters are core curriculum: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/398431.php
31/03/2022: My sentiments exactly - Mad, bad and dangerous to vote for, “Put simply, when ideologues demand power but cannot maintain it politically because they are cruel ideologues that destroy what they touch, expect more of their insanity to follow.”: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/29/mad-bad-and-dangerous-to-vote-for/
30/03/2022: DIY $4 & 20 Gram Roll-Up Titanium Stove: I have just completed making this titanium version of my roll-up hobo stove (as threatened here) and the carbon fibre cosy to go with it. I started with a 500 mm by 100 mm piece of titanium sourced from Aliexpress for less than US4. As stated in my earlier post You can buy the titanium foil to make the 20 gram one from Aliexpress for A$3.87 delivered. I have marked off the circle/hexagon for the fire door here. Note the ‘V’ at the bottom and top so it will roll up and fit in the billy. The circle is 2 1/2″ (62mm) in diameter. The door is 1/2″ from the bottom. You can build it with just a pair of craft scissors, a drill and a pop riveter. I use stainless steel rivets so they will not melt. Here it is complete. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/28/diy-4-20-gram-roll-up-titanium-stove/
30/03/2022: The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife – we will be hearing more about this in the future depending on how much info is suppressed: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/ariel-sabar-what-happened-to-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife/615160/ As in https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/03/the-scandals-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/ So much we still don’t know about the origins of ‘the world’s greatest religion’ and about the historicity (or otherwise) of Jesus himself.
30/03/2022: You would have to be nuts
if you think there isn’t a ‘
30/03/2022: Is
Meanwhile, sanctions that work? https://instapundit.com/511785/
30/03/2022: When the Japanese arrived
in the Solomons (during WW2)
29/03/2022: Other Uses for a Garbage Bag: Many of you no doubt use a trash bag as a liner for your pack – which is a great use for them. As a spare ultralight raincoat is another. Still another is re-purposing one as a pad inflator (bag). I almost never carry the inflator bag (because of the weight which came with my sleeping bag, preferring to dry it out properly when I get home and taking the chance that mould etc will shorten its life – but I am incurable.
You may prefer to make yourself a less than one ounce bag inflator with a trash bag and a bottle cap. You can use an ordinary drink bottle cap or if you hunt around you will find an even lighter alternative. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/other-uses-for-a-garbage-bag/
29/03/2022: Mighty Oaks: A lot of
PC here (as compared with a single C19th French shepherd who famously
reforested tens of thousands of acres with oaks in
29/03/2022: If the mRNA ‘vaccines’
were
Surely this is proof that it is weakening their immune systems too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/latest-cdc-data-shows-vaccinated-children-aged-5-11-now-likely-catch-covid-unvaccinated-peers/
No doubt Clive is right (ie he would
have died). How many other less fortunate folk have
29/03/2022: Has to be a good news
story, surely? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/new-zealand-massey-universitys-queer-fat-studies-lecturer-fatlicious-feminist-dies-suddenly-sleep-42/
29/03/2022: Absolutely right Alan Moran, You can't save the world with Net Zero. Such green fantasies will have exactly the opposite effect: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/03/you-cant-save-the-world-with-net-zero/
70% of
28/03/2022: Ultralight Ratchet Tie Down: Here’s a handy little gadget I picked up from Bunnings yesterday for A$14 per pair (Mar 2022)
Each 6′ (1.8 metre) tie down weighs 44 grams. Each metal hook seems to weigh about 10 grams whilst the plastic ratchet itself weighs only 14 grams so that if you wanted to dispense with the hooks for weight you could. You could also substitute a different length/weight of 3 mm cord if you wanted a device which was longer/shorter. I can envisage numerous uses for such a device including a secure means of attaching your pack to your pack raft or hauling your shower into the air from a branch.
They also come in 2.4 metre lengths. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/ultralight-ratchet-tie-down/
28/03/2022:
28/03/2022: Fortunately other things
have eclipsed the ‘climate strike’ but I have to agree with the author about
the quite dreadful manipulation and corruption of the children involved: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/27/lord-of-the-flies/
28/03/2022: An interesting anniversary I missed a couple of days back. Reminiscent of events in that part of the world today? https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/03/24/on-this-day-in-history-turco-mongol-emperor-timur-sacks-damascus-on-mar-24-1401/?fbclid=IwAR04ma_pgtFjmZXvFFh6VL0Xzm9tWbuAHjNO_I77Zhk6st8nFEarlstbwrA
28/03/2022: 3,000+ Years! You just
can’t challenge
27/03/2022: Responsible Sambar Deer Hunting: As I recover from my total knee replacement operation (five weeks now -and going well so far, thank you), every morning my attention is drawn to this sight outside my kitchen window. I know as a responsible farmer I should not allow this guy even to exist, but no-one is perfect - and it is so cute and will soon succumb to some awful disease anyway. (The blackberry also craves attention).
NB If you took a second or two to see the rabbit (I would have seen it instantly) it is because you are not ‘looking through’ but ‘looking at’. This is the most important hunting skill, and the first you must master.
He first cleans himself diligently then lies in the sun on his tummy like that for over an hour every morning on a little platform he has constructed under a shrub on the slope behind the house. This is a well-established habit. All creatures fall into a pattern of such habits - even human beings. A moment's refection of your daily routines will cause you to admit that you are no different in this than your wild brethren. The successful hunter can utilise careful observation and such recurring habits to ensure success in harvesting nature's annual bounty for the table.
And that is what responsible hunting is - it is not pest management. Its goal is not the eradication of some undesirable feral species but the careful nurture and management of a noble creature and desirable food source. Just as a farmer (such as me) manages his flocks to ensure that they increase and multiply each year (and are healthy and content) to the maximum extent of the available food source so that in autumn when that food supply begins to decline they will be sent off to market for the benefit of other people's tables rather than slowly starve as the lean times of winter hit. This is nature's cycle.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/responsible-sambar-deer-hunting/
27/03/2022: Golden Earrings (1947) –
what a ripper of a film. Ray Milland’s segue of facial expressions on
seeing the earrings in the first minutes of the film is one of the greatest
acting feats of the cinema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Earrings
PS It is available on
27/03/2022: A New Birth Control Pill for Men. This could be interesting – but will women accept that you have taken it? https://scitechdaily.com/new-male-birth-control-pill-effectively-prevents-pregnancy-without-side-effects/
27/03/2022: Now seems clear the
Bidens (father and son – 10% for ‘The Big Guy’ if you remember) actually funded
the biolabs in the
Also note How the ‘Trump Won’ Movement Will Be Vindicated: https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/25/how-the-trump-won-movement-will-be-vindicated/
27/03/2022: Of course I think they
are useless bird and bat chomping monsters which will never produce a net watt
of electricity but absurd isn’t it? We lived nearly half our lives within
5km of the (late - alas) beautiful
27/03/2022: You would think the
Government and the IPCC would have been on top of data like this (as with
similar unreconstructed thermometer records going back to the C17th some places
– and other historical data, some much older), but they are captive to a
climate change scenario and myth so it is up to citizens to correct the record.
You will note that the record wet and dry years are now pushed back to the
1850s. I have no doubt that the same thing would happen with temperature
records if earlier records were counted in. We can see this already eg in the
Cape Otway Vic historical data and in the earliest
26/03/2022: Visual Hiking Oxymoron- please don't make these bizarre ankle
breaking wildfire causing stone
26/03/2022: Are you a woman – twelve signs to look for: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-woman-12-signs-to-look-for
If only it wasn’t so sinister: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/03/25/think-you-know-what-a-woman-is-usa-today-says-science-should-make-you-think-again-n1584248
26/03/2022: Aside from the ‘mean girls’ fiasco and Albo’s massage parlor antics the Labor Party has other chickens which have still to come home to roost: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/kathy-sherriff-announces-shes-launched-a-civil-action-against-bill-shorten-alleging-rape.html
26/03/2022: Now even the New York Times admits that the Bidens are crooks surely their demise is imminent. This dreadful fake ‘Presidency’ will not last beyond the mid-terms (in November). (I include the awful Kamala Harris in this). Democracy may even re-emerge in the ‘Land of the Free’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/america-is-finding-out-the-presidents-son-cheated-the-media-buried-it-the-fbi-hid-it/
26/03/2022: Once you go to the ‘real science’ you can trust it. Understanding it is more difficult! However, in this example, “IPCC’s goal (aside from frightening the public) is to determine the ECS, the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, which is the surface temperature rise (∆Tsurf) due to a doubling of CO2 concentration. They are free to speculate, of course, but they are intellectually obligated to see whether their ECS makes sense. All they have to do is to apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their predicted temperature rise.
If they do so, they will find out that 16.4 W/m2 (for a 3oC) rise in radiative flux is violently in contradiction to the 3.71 W/m2 of “radiative forcing” that their models say causes that 3oC temperature rise. They are free to come up with an explanation, but they first have to apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their ECS. Maybe in a few more decades, IPCC will make this discovery.” One thing is certain: ‘The Science’ certainly seems to cause mass hysteria: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/24/basic-climate-physics-10/
25/03/2022: NIKE Releases New Women's Swimsuit With Extra Space For Male Genitalia: https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-releases-new-womens-swimsuit-with-extra-space-for-male-genitalia
25/03/2022: This Romanian MP is (unfortunately) so right. You can’t be a great light for democracy when you threw it all away over covid. Much of the West’s reaction to Putin is of this nature. You have a very short memory if you can’t recall Dictator Dan’s treatment of our citizens and ‘freedoms’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/trudeau-roasted-as-a-dictator-in-the-eu-we-watched-you-trample-women-with-horses/
25/03/2022: An outstanding family – putting your money where your mouth is: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-meals-ukrainian-refugees
25/03/2022: It appears as if for one
generation at least, the covid mandate was worse than the
I don’t know what to make of this message I received from a friend. It would be truly horrifying if true, but there is a lot of this stuff out there: https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=1487568149&attachment_id=708801196780080&message_id=mid.%24cAABa89gvkI-F1qKixF_pV1ZJQJJ9
24/03/2022: Now two advantages of Antabuse: you don’t get blind or blind drunk: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-antabuse-revive-vision-people-disorders.html
24/03/2022: A very interesting new drug – good news for the elderly: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-oral-drug-death-covid-mice.html
24/03/2022: Giving a big cheer to the Daily Wire: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/cancelling-cancel-culture-when-being-anti-woke-is-not-a-secret-but-a-selling-point/
24/03/2022: No way to confirm this story, but hubris and over-reach are the bare bones of tragedy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10641565/Russian-execution-squads-orders-kill-defectors-writes-IAN-BIRRELL.html
24/03/2022: Vlad ‘fueled’ the greens’
war on fracking (even though just about everywhere is sitting on a
virtually infinite supply of cheap gas). They are gullible fools after all,
eager to take anyone’s money so they can destroy ‘capitalism’: https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/putins-fake-fracking-news/
& https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/frack-to-the-future/
Who is in charge of our governments?
23/03/2022: How Randomized Control Trials really work: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/rct-study-shows-parachutes-make-no-difference-when-jumping-from-aircraft/
23/03/2022: 5,000 exo-planets so far
– how many more once James Web becomes
fully functional? Still only the tip of the iceberg but what is becoming
clear is that planetary systems (around solar masses – and elsewhere even) is
the norm. It would be hard to imagine that life has not arisen on some of them
and that
23/03/2022: Proof: All for nothing – no change in human CO2 enmissions will make the slightest difference to the climate: “Anthropogenic CO2 is virtually constant compared to the seasonal variations of the natural sources and sinks. The monthly anthropogenic flux change is much smaller than the uncertainty in the net global monthly flux changes. Therefore, there is no support for the claims about anthropogenic CO2 driving the annual changes. The seasonal natural source fluxes swamp the anthropogenic sources. Eliminating anthropogenic CO2 would have a negligible impact on annual increases, which is why the pandemic lockdowns had an imperceptible effect on the global atmospheric concentrations. I do not expect even draconian reductions in anthropogenic CO2 to have the kind of results claimed to justify eliminating fossil fuel use. The annual growth in CO2 is a result of increasing natural sources that is not compensated by commensurate increases in sinks.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/22/anthropogenic-co2-and-the-expected-results-from-eliminating-it/
23/03/2022: Good Lord – the
Ukrainians are castrating captured Russian soldiers, but they are ‘the good
guys’? That’s about as bad as it gets. When did you last hear of prisoners
of war treated thus? As I have said before I’m not about to throw away any of
my lives fighting for either side in this war, however if you really expect
‘right’ to be on your side you should perhaps make a little more effort to
distinguish yourself eg as being pro democracy (instead of outlawing all
opposition parties - some with 43 member in Parliament and also fighting the
Russians) as Zelensky has just done. One should note that he came to power in
2014 in a coup ousting the elected government and has failed to have ‘free and
fair’ elections since (particularly in the ‘disputed’ territories). Then there
is the issue of his secret NATO bases, the Biolabs, and work being conducted on
developing nuclear weapons – all these things clearly aimed at making an attack
on Russia in the future (under the aegis of Nato etc). At present I see
Zelensky as somewhat of a Macbeth figure willing to see his country destroyed
(less he be) or ‘wish the estate o' the world were now undone’ as Macbeth says.
Vlad is certainly not a good guy’ either and ought not be visiting the horror
we see daily on the people of
22/03/2022: Adventures in
22/03/2022: A great essay by Keith Windschuttle on the causes of war: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/03/the-causes-of-war/
No, I am not generally in favour of war but it would be nice to think that one’s ‘own side’ were the ‘good guys’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/21/what-was-the-2014-euromaidan-coup-in-ukraine-and-why-does-it-matter/
22/03/2022: The (‘Liberal’) loss in
SA surely gives a clear lesson that you do not defeat socialists by aping them
(as
22/03/2022: Can Civilisation Be
Saved? Substitute for the subject term ‘The West’, ‘
21/03/2022: “I have no reason to believe that he who would take away my liberty would not when he had me in his power take away everything else,” John Locke.
21/03/2022: What’s The Long Game Behind Fat Pride? I don’t know whether to join this movement or go on a crash diet: https://www.iwf.org/2022/03/17/whats-the-long-game-behind-fat-pride/
21/03/2022:
21/03/2022: Meanwhile this is very like the capitalists selling the communists the rope with which to hang them(selves): https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/19/germany-france-other-eu-members-sold-huge-stocks-of-arms-to-russia-before-invasion-despite-embargo/
Mind you that great ‘democrat’
Zelensky has now decided to institute a one party state in the
21/03/2022: I will extinguish these folks properly if they come to let my tyres down – so over holier than thou bullies and save the world cranks who have no idea how the world actually works. As an example also the anti duck hunting brigade who are so out of touch with the natural world they refuse to understand that seasonal breeding each year creates a surplus of creatures which must be humanely harvested or else they starve the following winter when there is not enough food to sustain them. Who would have thought anti-theft valve locks would be a thing? Who steals air? Well, these people just by breathing. If only we could charge them for it there would soon be many fewer of them (as welfare may not necessarily provide free air – at least not if I was in charge): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/climate-vandals-are-coming-to-let-down-your-suv-tyres-if-only-they-had-evidence-to-persuade-you-instead/
20/03/2022: Of Course We’re Living in
a Simulation. The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists.
They need to get over themselves and join the fun: https://www.wired.com/story/living-in-a-simulation/
20/03/2022: Putin really does have a hypersonic missile, ergo he can ‘afford’ to have a nuclear war. Very disturbing news. Maybe we should stay out of this: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/russia-deploys-hypersonic-kinzhal-superweapon/
Now just exactly how many wars are going on right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
20/03/2022: Really strange the way the
Left has come out on the side of Zelensky (and eg the awful Azov Battalion)
until now clearly a ‘white supremacist’ and
20/03/2022: What does inflation mean? Tucker’s take. “The standard of living is plummeting”. It is deeply worrying, yet our masters do not seem deeply concerned about this, yet the average housewife and wage earner must surely be. You don’t think this could be(come) the major election issue come May? (Video starts about 20 seconds in) eg, “The internal combustion engine is a miracle upon which all civilization depends”. Oh Yes: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-live-tucker-carlson-opening-statement-3/
In the same vein: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_us_must_face_an_existential_threat_but_its_not_climate_change.html
‘You know there’s a problem when the price of beer is up 5 percent’… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/you-know-theres-a-problem-when-the-price-of-beer-is-up-5-percent/
19/03/2022: I usually hate music (and particularly as sound effect or score/background in films which ruin the dialogue for me - being substantially deaf) but this was really great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGzK2SwG5io&t=120s
19/03/2022: So True: In his science fiction novel Nemesis, Isaac Asimov describes a female character as possessing the "unloveable virtues": Serious, Practical, Responsible, Dutiful. My wife is also beautiful.
19/03/2022: Two sides to what’s going
on in the
19/03/2022: This is what your elite leftist masters have in store for you (and me). Hair shirts for the hoi poloi and dachas for the commissars – it was ever thus. We need to make a huge effort to avoid this. Our traditional Oz complacency (‘She’ll be right mate’) will not cut it. The coming elections must be a wholesale rejection of these left-wing notions including those who have infiltrated the Liberal and National Parties. Where that is the case those members need to be replaced by more conservative folks such as Lib Dems, One Nation, UAP, Fishers & Shooters & etc even if some of these people may seem to lack the competency to run the country. I had not noticed that the two main parties actually overflow with outstanding competency either! https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/iea-wants-energy-lockdowns-drive-slower-ban-cars-on-sunday-ride-share-and-blame-putin/ (PS: IEA = International Energy Agency)
19/03/2022: Maybe at the 11th
hour the world can pull back from the Green Armageddon: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/a-kalibr-missile-just-hit-net-zero-germany-wakes-old-coal-plants-uk-talks-of-backflip-on-gas-oil-fracking-too/
Add these into that equation. For
example: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/16/no-amount-of-incremental-wind-and-solar-power-can-ever-provide-energy-independence/ & https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-3-14-no-amount-of-incremental-wind-and-solar-power-can-ever-provide-energy-independence
& https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/16/green-fuel-folly-forest-thinning-for-wood-pellet-production-has-a-profound-surface-warming-impact/
18/03/2022: Just a reminder: how
burning fossil fuels is greening the planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-nsU_DaIZE&feature=player_embedded#
18/03/2022: Mark
Twain, “I was educated once and it took me years to get over it” So true.
18/03/2022: You
can’t even imagine these shrieking nutters choosing such a logo – have they
never seen a set of male genitals? Well, probably not: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/controversial-womens-network-logo-taken-down-after-twitter-backlash/news-story/fd5e2d01baa384d2d5b4e20fe86fe0e1
18/03/2022: “This
is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper,” TS Eliot ‘The
Hollow Men’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/saudi-arabia-to-accept-yuan-for-chinese-oil-sales/
Maybe time to invest in gold. I have been studying up on what’s available from
the
18/03/2022: You
might not have heard much about the ‘global cooling’ era we are entering or its
impact on the food supply but this article is a reminder of the importance of
successful home gardening. I already warned about the dangers of the coming
‘stagflation’ event last week so get your finances in order – times are likely
to get tougher and governments world-wide have shot their bolts over the
imaginary enemy (covid) and have nothing in their war-chests for the very real
dangers ahead. In any case, as I have observed many times before government is
the problem, not the solution. We will (thankfully) have to get by with less
and less of it in the decades to come. My suggestion has long been to wind it
back by 10% per year until it disappears up its own fundament. BTW If you
haven’t noticed that government kills more people than any other single thing
you just haven’t been watching: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/food_shortages_soon_come__what_to_do.html
17/03/2022: SSDs:
Have you bought one of these yet? 40 Grams. Still working out how to get
stuff in/out of it to my Android phone – but you can https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/sandisk-1tb-e30-portable-ssd-black-sde30ss1tb
I teamed mine with one of these: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/23/ultralight-charging-cable/
Mind you 1 Tb
Micro sd cards are now $214: https://www.amazon.com.au/SanDisk-Ultra-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B08HCPTMJG/ref=asc_df_B08HCPTMJG?tag=bingshopdesk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80676739598376&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584276306375179&psc=1
17/03/2022: Many Thanks. A friend of mine (Brett) has solved a mystery for me (from
28/02): “This video explains there’s a hidden device in its base: https://youtu.be/Y5dylh2aOiw”
17/03/2022: While
we are on the topic of reparations for past wrongs (I want some too) No,
really I don’t. Though it is true that my ancestors were forced off their
ancient lands (eg by the ‘Enclosure Acts) and then many transported for life to
Australia Felix in the early C19th (and so on), I have enjoyed a wonderful life
right here with the greatest woman imaginable. No-one ‘owes’ me anything.: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/john-cleese-the-romans-the-normans-need-to-pay-reparations-to-the-british.html
17/03/2022: How
aboriginal (and mountain cattlemen) fire management really worked – and why it
is a disaster to abandon it: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/03/blackfellas-whitefellas-greenfellas-and-fire/
17/03/2022: Move
over Buck Rogers, Neil Armstrong, Elon Musk etc, etc. You are just so
patriarchal: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/feminisms-final-frontier-spaceships-are-too-phallic-so.html
16/03/2022: DIY
Ultralight Shoulder Pouches: I sewed up a couple of shoulder strap pouches
(for Best $20 Backpack) from some 2 oz/yd2 ripstop nylon. I guess these are
about 3/4 of a litre each, maybe a litre. They can contain an interesting
assortment of items you might want to access quickly as you walk along. Spare
ammunition, chewing gum etc.
I attached them with an ingenious method I ‘stole’ from
Joe Valesko (Zpacks) though I have no idea whether he still uses them. They
came on my first old pack from him – a long since discontinued model, worse
luck. Simpler is frequently better – and certainly cheaper. Anyway it is a
simple ‘button and loop’ design with a length of cord which works to stop them
slipping down. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/15/diy-ultralight-shoulder-pouches/
16/03/2022: What
a hero she is: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/her-majesty-the-queens-message-on-commonwealth-day.html
16/03/2022: ‘Why
study English’, they say. Because it is utterly astonishing and you don’t
know what you are missing if you don’t: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-twa-corbies/
Warning: may actually take some effort. Sorry. No, not sorry. I can’t see that
AR or AI can ever replace the intelligence needed to study and understand a
16/03/2022: Banning
Rail Guns just seems to me like so much virtue signaling. These things are
unlikely to become anywhere near as effective as DIY pipe guns (that anyone can
make with a few basic tools for probably $10) anytime soon. Eg: https://hackaday.com/2015/11/09/the-most-powerful-diy-railgun/
especially when you should understand that it is already a damned sight easier
and cheaper to buy an illegal firearm (eg a Glock) than it is to buy (and
licence) the legal alternative. Have a nose around docklands, western suburbs
and other sleazy pubs and you will see what I mean. If you have a lazy grand
you can have a pistol pretty much the same day. And this at a time when I would
advocate for making the compulsory ownership
of military semi-automatic weapons pretty much compulsory for lawful
citizens as part of any sane defence strategy
16/03/2022: If
you have to choose between these two, there really is no choice. Anthony
Albanese has really
15/03/2022: Best
$20 Backpack: Modifying Amazon’s
G4 Free. Inflation has bitten a little since I wrote the previous post
(below) such that now this excellent backpack costs $US
22.99 at Amazon instead of the US$19.99 I paid back in March 2018. That’s
inflation at 3.75% per year by the way. Still a lot cheaper than a plus $300
backpack which will do nothing more – or even do it half so well.
Since then I carried mine to (beyond) Dingboche on the Everest
Base Camp trail – and many other places besides – though our travels have
been somewhat curtailed recently like everyone else’s by covid, or at least its
restrictions.
You can see in this post EBC Gear
List me carrying mine just outside Pangboche over 5 km up in the sky. The
backpack carried everything we needed for a ten day walking trip (including
rain gear, spare clothes, survival, satellite communication (2) cooking,
sleeping and shelter equipment (for -20C temperatures). It weighed a little
over 6 kg. Della’s was nearer 5kg. Almost no food and minimal water. You
can buy it on the way And was outstandingly comfortable.
I hardly noticed I was carrying it (at 70+ years old)
though my worn out knee was ‘killing me’ back then – which is why I had it
replaced last month. It had been causing me significant pain for nearly a
decade now. This used to be called ‘manning up’ and was considered a virtue.
See I
Kneed You
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/14/best-20-backpack/
15/03/2022: Thank
goodness Zachary Rolfe has been acquitted of shooting a mad dog. He should
15/03/2022: An
interesting speculation – one thing is sure: most weather has a natural cause.
Haven’t seen a blue moon or a ‘year without a summer’ for a while as were
caused by previous mighty eruptions: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/did-volcanic-dust-from-hunga-tonga-cause-flooding-in-australia/
Cause and Effect are wonderful: The
eruption of the Indonesian island of Tambora in 1816 plunged the world into
‘darkness’ for around a year, causing massive crop failures, the year without a
summer, and widespread starvation in Europe for example. It also brought us
blood-red sunsets and ‘blue moons’ on account of all the red dust in the sky.
Also surprisingly it brought us the wonderful novel ‘Frankenstein’ on account
of Mary Wolstencraft (Shelley) having to stay indoors all summer due to the
colder than normal weather - and needing something to do!
15/03/2022: Prospero : “O brave new world
That has such people in't!” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/transgender-serial-killer-shopped-99-cent-store-murder-victims-dismembered-leg-video/
15/03/2022: Three
days’ training and then off to war! I know you will say, ‘This will
Mind you they
are in dire straights and may well lose: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/clear-situation-ukraine-desperate-video-week-ago-getting-worse-zelensky-hanging/
14/03/2022: Zpacks
Solo Plex Tent: This morning I received an ad for this tent on Facebook (as
you do). Zpack Plex Solo
Tent. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say. I’m sure this
is not the case here but this tent is so, so , like my original Deer
Hunter’s Tent which evolved from my Tyvek
Solo Fire Shelter that the similarities are eerie – and at the time (last
century?) nothing like this existed.
Of course this is most likely because the laws of
physics/geometry are immutable so that (eventually) you find there really is
only one way to do any thing. I did however (originally) post the design,
measurements and instructions (on my old website)
then deleted them as I realized: 1. I might want to commercialise them in
future and 2. Someone else might do so first.However, no doubt they can be
found on the Wayback Machine.
I notice Six Moon Designs have a similarly designed
tent so it is probably just ‘parallel evolution’. They are welcome to my design
now anyway, as Della long since decided ‘we’ would not be launching any new
business ventures, but just enjoy life instead – and she’s the boss, as in most
homes I’m sure.
I am not so keen on Dyneema as Joe is (though I
understand he has made it his trademark material). It is (slightly) lighter (at
from .48 oz) than the best silnylon materials (Ripsopbytheroll’s
.77oz/yd2) but I am not convinced that the very slight weight advantages
are worth the risk of using such very delicate materials. That being said, it
is enormously easier to repair with sticky tape!
It is tricky to cut and sew,but Joe has been doing it so long he has no doubt
worked out all the ‘wrinkles’ in doing it.
A very slight hole in the plastic film covering is very
hard to find and spot though. Non-woven dyneema material does also tend to
‘shred’ away with use , something I am not very fond of. I have had this happen
with a number of packs which if they had been made from a slightly heavier
woven fabric would have lasted several times as long. You are paying very big
money for this special material (something like $25 a yard – and it is
narrower) as compared with $5-7 a yard for (‘ordinary’) silnylon.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/13/zpack-plex-solo-tent/
14/03/2022: Putin’s
crossing the Rubicon was an enormous financial mistake – but not just for
14/03/2022:
14/03/2022: Imagine
warning that having a nuclear war might cause a climate problem – are we
back to the ‘
14/03/2022: President
Trump is just great – I just can’t wait to see him back in the White House for
another six years come November: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/president-trump-biden-is-crawling-around-the-globe-begging-for-oil-from-saudi-arabia-iran-venezuala.html
13/03/2022: This is as true today as it was in 1854: "Most men are needlessly poor all of their lives
because they think they must have such a house as their neighbors have."
Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden’ - one of my favourite books. You can still build
a small modest house yourself for perhaps $20K. Also so far as I know the
‘minimum’ house is still only a bit over 2 squares ie 25 square metres which
should not cost more than about $5K. I have been working on designs for
wilderness accommodation (for four) which are much smaller than this (around 6
square metres) and well under $500. I will be posting my designs soon. Of
course you have to find a block of land too – blocks still exist out there for
under $40K, some even under $30K. Some of these are quite large and have power
and water. The one at McMahons Creek looks nice: https://www.realestate.com.au/buy/property-land-between-0-50000-in-vic/list-1
NB There are still probably ways to get your hands on some land for less than
this – as Thoreau did after all. We (now) have a very big house (it grew over
the years to over 200 square metres plus verandahs) but I doubt it cost us much
more than $40K. I would think I could still build it today for under $100K.
13/03/2022: When
they thaw Walt’s head out and bring him back to life – it can’t be long now –
there will be big changes at Disney World.
13/03/2022: It
is coming. Beware: You don’t know what ‘cancel culture’ means until they cancel
your credit card and ID card: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/coming-to-a-civilization-near-you-the-totalitarians-wet-dream-a-central-bank-digital-currency/
13/03/2022: This
could very easily get worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ4-vqO0oQ4&t=97s
12/03/2022: If you are a patriotic Australian who doesn’t want to part with too
much of your hard-earned to outfit yourself, try these folks. I am looking
very smart at present and for about 2/3rds of the cost of local stores. This is
all good gear too which employs Aussies and will last. The King Gee Cool Work
Trousers in a super tough ripstop cotton come in a beautiful green (as well as
black, blue and khaki) for example for A$56. Cheaper and more durable than any
pair of jeans: https://everythingaustralian.com.au/
12/03/2022: A (climactic) voice of sanity: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/09/wuwt-contest-winner-professional-2nd-place-is-there-really-a-climate-crisis/
12/03/2022: They work for us – that’ll be the day: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33561
12/03/2022: Whoa! Let him walk home or see if Elon can fetch him? The pronouns are
more important anyways, surely? https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/11/russia-might-abandon-a-u-s-astronaut-on-iss-but-nasa-is-worried-about-pronouns-n1565829
12/03/2022: The same people who tried to hide the truth about Pfizer vaccines
(1223 died during the 3
Tucker’s
Take – yes, it is ominous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2cwGscanAg&t=284s
11/03/2022: Just wow – if only they had found it twenty years ago when maybe 1-2 of
the survivors was still alive: https://endurance22.org/endurance-is-found
11/03/2022: This is democracy? Any way the two main parties can lock you out of
voting for someone else they will use. A ‘plague on both your houses’: https://www.rebelnews.com/liberal_democrats_lose_high_court_bid_but_lib_dems_march_onward
11/03/2022: And there goes Duckduckgo too. The Ministry of Truth wins again: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/ceo-says-duckduckgo-manipulating-search-results-to-down-rank-russian-disinformation.html
11/03/2022: People - for God’s sake! I’m sorry: it’s just so sexist: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/kamala-harris-the-future-of-our-world-is-being-built-by-women-and-girls.html
10/03/2022: That time of year again – ‘The Fight Between Carnival and Lent’, Pieter Bruegels: https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/pieter-bruegel_1559-1559_pieter-bruegel-the-elder-the-fight-between-carnival-and-lent.jpg
10/03/2022: The awful game of ‘marriage chicken’ - and the dismal future
feminists have created for themselves (and men): https://spectator.com.au/2022/03/the-game-of-marriage-chicken/
10/03/2022: It was not always thus – I am not suggesting we go back to this. One
(wonderful) wife is all I need: https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success
10/03/2022: The ‘truth’ about the
09/03/2022: Could
09/03/2022: Strapless Backpack: I have been thinking along these lines too
(just a thought at present) but my ‘solution’ was more a U-shape (like carrying
a bag of grain on your shoulders). The hobo’s swag is another example I
suppose. This one looks a bit complicated. However, the point is good – one
should try to carry the load perched on ones callipygous bottom - as the
Bushmen (or women) do. Packs need to be shaped more to fit in to the curve of
the spine (the lordosis – two new words for you, perhaps) more, as Mountain
Laurel Designs packs are shaped to. I will be making myself a new pack sometime
in the future which incorporates this idea, and also the enormous improvement
of the horse collar over the yoke (which I suspect most backpacks have not
realized yet): https://www.noshoulderstraps.com/
09/03/2022: I love this poem (much as I hate the war that stole the poet from us!)
I so agree with the sentiment. It is the small acts of conservation count
most. We have an archway I constructed 20+ years ago harbours many fine birds
who are maybe our friends. The wrens and antechinus love the blackberries I
labour to destroy. The pardalotes find a home in a raw bulldozer cut on the
hillside. The sea eagles nest in the open cut, finding the cliffs to their
liking. The peregrine sees the Station stacks as merely an eyrie. The whistling
kites hunt the ‘pest’ tilapia in the Pondage. Marsh warblers sing from the
cumbungi in the roadside drains. The thornbills love spiders in our old sheds.
Many birds collect our sheep’s cast wool for their nests…life will find a way:
we do not need vast National Parks to destroy nature with vicious wildfires.
Such ‘conservation’ is folly:
Fifty
Faggots: Edward Thomas 1878-1917
There they stand, on their ends, the fifty
faggots
That once were underwood of hazel and
ash
In Jenny Pink's copse. Now, by the
hedge
Close packed, they make a thicket fancy
alone
Can creep through with the mouse and
wren. Next spring
A blackbird or robin will nest there,
Accustomed to them, thinking they will
remain
Whatever is for ever to a bird:
This Spring it is too late; the swift
has come.
'Twas a hot day for carrying them up:
Better they will never warm me, though
they must
Light several Winters' fires. Before
they are done
The war will have ended, many other
things
Have ended, maybe, that I can no more
Foresee or more control than robin and
wren.
09/03/2022: Gold is shooting up – time to reach for it, and iodine (for
radiation sickness)? https://goldprice.org/
09/03/2022: We need to understand to what extent we are still being obfuscated by
the legacy of Herbert Marcuse: “The prepackaged opinions and talking points
of political camps, both left and right, are not thought. True thought, rather, is a journey whose destination is
unknown. Everything I write wills itself as a step on that journey, a journey
that considers nothing too small, and nothing too great, as an object of our
sightseeing, a journey where the posture of a statue or the detail in a façade
make us pause and look, just as much as do the demise of armies and the rise
and fall of civilizations. If you refuse to look at certain sights you come
across on that journey—no matter how ugly and hateful they may appear to your
imperfect being—then you will quickly get lost on the road and dizzy yourself
in a labyrinth of solipsism.” A very thought-provoking and well-written essay: https://quillette.com/2022/03/02/herbert-marcuse/
08/03/2022: This is an otter fisherman. Because they exist it lends credence to
the ‘legend’ of wild otters in NZ, a creature the Maori also had a name for
(though no-one has yet captured a photograph of one). They have (allegedly)
been seen even recently near Tautapere for example. However that may turn out,
I feel that there is no doubt Chinese sailors explored the East Coast of
Here
is a possible example: https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth/videos/536017841085513
08/03/2022: The Modern Headhunter: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/box-human-heads-stolen-truck-denver/
This
has been happening in
08/03/2022: Maybe it will turn out to be a different ‘great reset’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/two-weeks-of-war-undoes-thirty-years-of-energy-propaganda-everyone-wants-fossil-fuels/
08/03/2022: I have been wrong before. Maybe soon we will be talking about a
Ukrainian invasion of
This
is how it’s done: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/how_technology_has_saved_ukraine.html
07/03/2022: Why are we destroying our men: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/2020-update-for-every-100-girls-part-i/
07/03/2022: Step Back in Time – a ‘Told You So’ moment. During
the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah
Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his
“indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to
invade Ukraine’: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/02/28/Flashback-Palin-Mocked-in-2008-for-Warning-Putin-May-Invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-Elected-President/
07/03/2022: Make the Nimbys pay for their own boondoggles. Absolutely. I wonder how
many young Greta followers would choose to opt out of paying more tax? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/05/british-government-young-people-should-pay-for-climate-action/
07/03/2022: Stop
– before it is too late! “Reality -- like truth and goodness -- is not
fungible. Whether we wish it to be or not. We did not ask to be born. None
of us. No living being. No one ever arranged their own birth. That is the
truth, a fact. Impossible. Yet here we are. Therefore, it is simply impossible
that our rights come from other humans or living things. Or that reality comes
from Mark Zuckerberg.” (‘Fungible’ = ‘interchangeable’) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/the_metaverse_artificial_intelligence_and_the_assault_on_reality.html
06/03/2022:
Fortunately
Morrison has already stepped up our defence spending: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin-australia-must-turbocharge-its-defence-capabilities/news-story/6c70cd7398b348c16fbe2b9dca97f9da
06/03/2022: The Covid Crimes Trials. You can only hope there will be so that
the (now) millions unnecessarily killed by covid because of wicked restrictions
of cheap effective drugs can receive
some justice and monsters like our Dictator Dan can be put to the wall: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/dr-andrew-hill-how-many-people-died-because/
06/03/2022: Whatever happened to this: Article
19 from the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the
right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold
opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
However,
I can see his point: Tommy Robinson, “
06/03/2022: The Citroen Ami a $12,000 EV (unsuited for most roads) – how this
is better than a Suzuki A lot is beyond me. Ah, the future…almost glad I won’t
be around to see it: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/the-citroen-ami-mini-ev-the-covered-mobility-scooter/
05/03/2022: Time for a good news story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=278&v=PVPyLoYyUVk&feature=emb_title
05/03/2022: Watermelons: I have been saying for years that they are green on the
outside and red on the inside – ever since Patrick Moore a Greenpeace founder
revealed that the (‘disappearing’) communists took over the ‘environmental’
movement when ‘The Wall’ came down, so long ago now. All that time they
have been taking money from the (ex) communists (Putin et al) to destroy the
West in every way they could think of, just as ‘fellow travelers’ had been
doing amongst us ever since the Bolshevik Revolution (Nov 1917). The enemy
within. I know my University days in the 60s were full of them. How many I knocked
down with my fists back then, but not enough – and not permanently enough. We
let them win. Don’t just think of their ‘environmental’ plans here. Their
social (‘marriage equality’, gender identity etc) and economic (welfare, social
justice, social housing…) have been just as important - and perfidious. They
want a people who are secondary and subservient to ‘The State’. They always
have. They are terrified of the idea that the State is a social construct which
‘The People’ implement from time to time for (clearly defined) purposes and
ought itself to be secondary and temporary in nature. Primacy is an independent
self-sufficient populace going about their own business with as few (external )
rules and controls as possible ie Freedom. They absolutely hate the very idea
of freedom. Their money trail and agenda has become clearer in the last little
while: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/russian-linked-groups-donated-to-anti-frakking-green-groups-because-they-love-the-planet-right/
05/03/2022: I suspect also that Putin will succeed in
05/03/2022: However, sometimes a cheap (new) weapon can change the outcome of a
war. This may also happen with submarine warfare. This was (after all)
Howard’s ‘solution’ to making
04/03/2022: A Balloon Eclipse: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/bill-thompsons-celestial-numbers-come-up.html
04/03/2022: What can you do with such people? https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/queensland-saw-amputation-victim-suffered-an-undiagnosed-medical-condition-family-believe/news-story/2304a58be2dd0a3975a269d380598f57
04/03/2022: Another truly remarkable essay by Lord Monckton which makes so many
puzzling evils so much clearer. It has made up my mind on a host of issues,
not least which side I should be supporting in the current Ukrainian
‘situation’. A must read. Really: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/03/the-strategic-threat-from-net-zero-emissions/
04/03/2022: Who are the real enemies (of the West?) Surely: the Left, Islam and
03/03/2022: Andrew
Hastie making it clear we should send more than pronouns or pronunciation.
I like this guy – can we have him as PM some day. Well, today? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/andrew-hastie-mp-on-sending-australian-ammunition-missiles-to-kill-russians.html
03/03/2022: Apparently
when the Russians actually invade it might be time to realise (too late) you
might need energy independence – even if you are a Green nut-job - over to you
Scotty: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/01/german-green-party-embraces-coal-lng-and-nuclear/
Another
way to put it: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-wests-green-delusions-empowered?utm_source=url&s=r
03/03/2022: Interesting
data. BTW: We are triple vaccinated (Astra Zenica) for one reason or
another – eg having needed a knee replacement). Covid certainly seems to have
slipped from the front page (before we died of boredom instead) but disquiet
about mRNA vaccines continues to increase (in the background). Clearly evidence
now of long-term DNA effects which were specifically denied possible at the
outset. Novavax has now been approved as a booster (if you still want a
vaccine): https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/01/russia-distraction-uk-gov-revealed-triple-vaccinated-account-9-in-10-covid-deaths/
03/03/2022: Maybe
long since time we thought about moving
03/03/2022: Selective
Crisis Enhancement (SCE) – we need a new acronym surely? We seem to move or
be moved from one ‘crisis’ to another as recently from Covid to the Ukraine.
I’m not sure either of them were (worthy) crises) really, but someone (in
charge?) is picking these out from the bundle and ordering that they be
accentuated as if they were the sole challenge facing humanity – and so that we
don’t get to thinking about other things. The folks fighting the war in
02/03/2022: You
might think the battle for
02/03/2022: At least plastic supermarket bags were
recyclable but we have rushed into flooding the world with worthless products
which are not: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/americas-national-renewable-energy-lab-warns-a-tidal-wave-of-wind-and-solar-waste-is-coming/
02/03/2022: Completely agree with Neil Oliver: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33178
01/03/2022: This guy was great: Henry Louis Mencken
(1880-1956): "I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing
that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand
years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when
the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest
qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the
shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I
believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound
to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however
slight the measure, is bound to become a slave."
01/03/2022: One thing I notice (and have railed about
for years) is that ‘statists’ do seem to believe that the whole ball-game is
‘for the good of the state’ something which we and ours are all just
property of - like it was stamped on our bottoms at birth. One thing which
really stood out (to me) about 1776 was the Declaration that it was (instead)
all about ‘The People’ who could (rightfully) take up arms to remove an unjust
government and whose inalienable rights could be removed by such a government
but not guaranteed by one. The state needed to be kept within quite narrow
circumscribed limits. I still think this is an important watershed moment in
history. Government always and everywhere needs to be wound back with power and
wealth kept firmly in the hands of The People.
01/03/2022: What is really going on In the
Surely (for
example) this ‘news’ story could not be true: https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/25863/putin-destroys-7-u-s-bioweapons-labs-in-ukraine/
01/03/2022: Well Said Andrew Bolt: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-ukrainians-are-heroes-to-all-of-us/news-story/389f6056f6f443bbe104e1cbb98d11c5
01/03/2022: The Importance of Men:
28/02/2022: Thank goodness at least the Stock Market is
setting new records – I would hate to think the good burghers of
28/02/2022: I have to own one of these: https://www.atiki.shop/products/kinetic-art?st=&fbclid=IwAR1cVv-uuhn706xHsCORB9T1dy70xuLvXEJCSsdpiKM7rEBhTRt2VOlgmbk
PS: The more I look at and think about this object the
more I feel that It can't possibly exist. Surely it defies the laws of physics.
Once I could have written out the equations ot show this. By the same token
someone once said the same thing about whether bumble bees could fly yet I have
seen them doing so. Will I have to purchase one to see whether it is a fake -
or a new source of energy? You have to click on the link and open it then
scroll down to see the video.
A friend of mine (Brett) explains: “This video explains
there’s a hidden device in its base
28/02/2022: Knee Update 3: Good to know Putin is better than Hitler (at conquering the
27/02/2022: Many Ukrainians have (unsurprisingly) not
forgotten the Holdomor.
There exists an excellent 2019 film about it (eponymously) ‘Mr Jones’. You
should steal a copy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
27/02/2022: Those
of ‘us’ who thought (again and again) we just could not have another war were
wrong again – and will continue to be so! If folks think they can have a
‘quick war’ (and win) they will give it a try most every time. Your prayers will
do nothing to prevent that. Bullies need to be convinced before they start that
they will have neither. This used to be called ‘Defence’. Older people must be
reminded of the ‘Phoney War’ period at the beginning of WW2 – let’s hope this
is not a repetition. A reminder, real people are dying. I am waiting for major
leaders to tell Vlad very loudly to ‘Back Off’ eg ‘Tomorrow we will destroy the
Kremlin’.
26/02/2022: What
could go wrong: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333751-700-meet-the-robots-that-can-reproduce-learn-and-evolve-all-by-themselves/
26/02/2022: “The
peoples of autocratic countries don’t get to choose their governments; that is
their tragedy. The peoples of liberal democracies get a choice, and that is
theirs. The fact that the people of the United States have chosen to be led by
a geriatric incompetent, at this moment in time, is more than a tragedy for
America; it is a tragedy for the entire world” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/02/1939-revisited/
26/02/2022: The
dilemma for the West: you can’t win a geopolitical conflict lasting years or
decades with an economy powered intermittently by wind turbines and solar
panels: https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/02/24/standing_up_to_putin_means_ditching_net-zero_818493.html
26/02/2022:
18/02/2022:
18/02/2022: Harry Cummins make a fine case for why I
believe in ‘discrimination’ or ‘discernment’ as I prefer to call it,
particularly in relation to immigration but also (for example) in relation to
the franchise. ‘No taxation without representation' formed the cornerstone of
American democracy you might remember. I would probably prefer to turn that on
its head, ie ‘No representation without taxation’ so that you only get to
choose who is the government and what the government spends (your) money on if
you have contributed (financially) to that government. A very thought-provoking
essay anyway: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/the-common-cause-of-china-and-islam/?fbclid=IwAR3RijMTcM2IeC6Sak3AUePXGXeNwHfsDjRfj4O9TZ1imw4slF4RRTAQrqE
18/02/2022: Knee Update #2: I
have walked to the toilet and shower (using a walker) and am now all clean
and sitting in a chair. All going well so far - and thank you all very much for
the kind thoughts and well-wishing. Already planning future hikes - Vic
mountains (hopefully by May), Mt Bartle Frere (alternate route) late June, EBC
and surrounds late Oct and back to the Dusky (Fiordland, NZ) in Feb/March. An
example of where we would like to be: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/17/everest-days-1-2-lukla-to-namche-bazar/?fbclid=IwAR1R3V36ZjmJYb0cU-Zq0qKl8MfaiP8uVNkhhuGpmb4ZRtmogowldqcOj1o
17/02/2022: Knee update: Just to let you know that
5 hours after going down to surgery I am siting up in bed and still have ten
toes. Time will tell how well all this went. Many thanks for all your good
wishes. I will keep you posted,
17/02/2022: Ain’t
it the truth: Aussie beer tax slammed as ‘sexist’: https://www.rebelnews.com/aussie_beer_tax_cut_slammed_as_sexist
17/02/2022: If I
am a bit quiet for a few days it is because I am in hospital having a knee
replacement. Hopefully this gives me a whole new lease on life!
17/02/2022: On
the persistence of bad ideas: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/2/firing-the-canon
17/02/2022: Terrible
news P.J. O’Rourke is dead. Laughter died with him: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/pj-orourke-passes-away/
‘Eat the Rich’,
an example of his greatness: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Treatise-Economics-ORourke/dp/0871137607?asin=0871137607&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
16/02/2022: Why
SpaceX is going to dominate air freight: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/02/spacex-reusable-rocket-costs-versus-airplanes.html
16/02/2022: The
revolution really has begun: 81% of Canadians (already) oppose Trudeau’s
response to the trucker protest: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/32561
Trudeau goes full
Nazi: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/trudeau-declares-all-truckers-donors-and-honkers-are-terrorists-seize-their-bank-accounts/
16/02/2022:
Notice how the Greens and the Left’s vote is collapsing. Conservatives are
several points ahead: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/adam_bandt_s_greens_circle_the_drain_as_voter_support_collapses
16/02/2022:
Meanwhile
Seems that news
was highly exaggerated!
15/02/2022: This
pub survived the Black Death but could not survive covid lunacy. Let that
be a lesson to you all: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/oldest-pub-in-britain-closes-after-1229-years/
15/02/2022: The
truckers have brought about a massive change in public opinion in just a
15/02/2022: What
do greens really want? We must not bow to this sort of climate madness: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/amid-energy-crisis-uk-government-uses-regulatory-death-curse-on-massive-local-gas-industry/
15/02/2022: Last
Week the “Experts” Admitted Lockdowns Did Not Reduce Mortality Rates — Now They
Admit Masking Was Mostly Worthless: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/wow-last-week-experts-admitted-lockdowns-not-reduce-mortality-rates-now-admit-masking-mostly-worthless/
May be useful
advice: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/heres-how-to-detox-from-the-covid-spike-protein-from-the-jab-or-the-virus/
14/02/2022: Who
needs Netflix, etc? The Internet Archive has thousands of fine movies and TV
shows for streaming (without ads) for free: https://archive.org/details/feature_films
14/02/2022:
Useful Instructable: How to open a locked door without a key: https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a25318691/how-open-locked-door/
14/02/2022: Well
said Joel – everyone needs to step back from trying to steal votes from the
extreme Left. Instead these evil forces need to be rejected and exorcised: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/labor-mp-says-party-is-better-off-in-opposition-than-doing-deal-with-greens-in-event-of-hung-parliament/news-story/7a63587e1ddaed778ea38c20917bb051
You should try
to understand the cost of green lunacy: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/here_s_the_cost_of_a_labor_greens_government
14/02/2022: When
you are punished for doing a public service: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/i-have-no-problem-with-this-murder/
13/02/2022:
Nature is awesome: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/massive-swarm-of-birds-plummet-to-the-earth-dead-very-bizarre-video/
13/02/2022: Amid
the witch-hunting of our greatest warrior and hero Ben Roberts-Smith VC please
try to understand why we have a military, (Clue: It is not to push some bizarre
woke agenda): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-retired-marine-3-star-general-explains-critical-military-theory/ar-AATHzEt?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
13/02/2022: What
if a revolution had already started and no-one even noticed (because the media
are part of the system). Remember how the collapse of the
13/02/2022: A
huge crowd in
12/02/2022:
12/02/2022: You
betcha – no such thing as a free lunch: https://www.city-journal.org/free-lunch-economics
12/02/2022: We
have often said, ‘But it ain’t the Black Death’ but now it turns out the Black
Death wasn’t either: https://scitechdaily.com/black-death-mortality-not-as-widespread-as-long-thought-bubonic-plague-had-no-impact-on-parts-of-europe/
11/02/2022: The
remarkable Anthony Hopkins: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/02/10/wolfmanoz-at-the-movies-8/
11/02/2022: The
debate about euthanasia quickly slips from (not) forcing people to live with intolerable
conditions to forcing them to end their lives because (such) lives are
‘worthless’. Many would have seen Helen Keller’s whole life for example as
‘not worth living’ (if it were them, they think) but she and millions of others
do not agree: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/the-political-shifts-that-embrace-euthanasia/
11/02/2022:
Innumeracy and ‘aboriginal genocide’: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/aborigines-and-the-question-of-genocide/
10/02/2022: Wild
surfing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZoPR4pCwm0&t=66s
10/02/2022:
Election fraud. Just one state. As if it was not enough that the Arizona audit
found 700,000 dubious votes there are over 700,000 votes lacking any chain of
custody: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/huge-maricopa-county-investigation-finds-additional-740000-ballots-no-documented-chain-custody/
Election officials have been caught deleting records: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/exclusive-election-fraud-video-maricopa-county-election-workers-caught-red-handed-deleting-archived-files-server-delivery-auditors/
Meanwhile Rep Finchen introduces a bill to decertify the election results: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/breaking-big-arizona-state-rep-mark-finchem-introduces-resolution-set-aside-decertify-three-2020-county-elections/
10/02/2022:
World’s most massive experiment - mRNA Vaccines just became even more worrying:
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/spike-protein-still-being-produced-60-days-later-after-mrna-vax/
PS: We have just had our third shot of Astra Zenica.
PS: Astra-Zenica has (at last) been
approved a a booster this morning, so there is a choice. Soon Novavax will join
it.
09/02/2022: Tali
Karng - a Gippsland Gem: A friend of mine (Leanne) walked there last
weekend reminding me of our trip there twelve years' ago, not long after the
2007 fire. The bush has changed a fair bit since then. She kindly shared her
photos with me, so I have been able to construct this photo essay about the
trip for your edification.
Leanne started her trip (as many do) at the McFarlane
Saddle on the
Many people just walk up from the
It is only a thirty or so years ago that we used to
drive in along what were then 4WD (logging) tracks deer hunting. I have
even been in there in my old (1981) Subaru Leone circa 1984 with my foxhounds.
It is (alas) just a pile of rust in the paddock today (and the beloved hounds
but a memory) but on that day I towed a Toyota Land Cruiser through a couple of
difficult sections with it. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/02/08/tali-karng-a-gippsland-gem/
09/02/2022:
Women (and men) just became redundant: https://interestingengineering.com/an-ai-robot-nanny-will-care-for-human-embryos-in-artificial-wombs
09/02/2022: The
‘nuclear family’ was a mistake? An interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2smYKHi_Ud2csYitXDLm954scVyE3hsHEdgR9AG2ZfW2egbKi2ZCdDJjc
09/02/2022: Some
‘religion’ where it is ‘honourable’ to murder women: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10488629/Iranian-husband-carries-severed-head-wife-decapitating-honour-killing.html
08/02/2022: Men
have been boss in the Orkneys for a long while: https://scitechdaily.com/ancient-dna-rewrites-the-history-of-prehistoric-orkney-britains-ancient-capital/
08/02/2022:
Seems like the Shoshone have busy been in
08/02/2022:
Another great green idea: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/02/germany_to_raze_a_1000yearold_forest_in_the_name_of_going_green.html
08/02/2022: From
Anon:
Dear Complier,
We’ve met, but you probably don’t recognise me. You may remember referring to
me as a “conspiracy theorist”, “racist”, “sexist”, “bigot”, or “anti-vaxxer”,
but in fact I am none of the above, and much more to you than you realise. I am
your friend, family member, colleague, lover, acquaintance and neighbour. I am
everywhere, but I don’t self-righteously disclose where exactly.
You’re wearing a mask so I can’t see the scorn set on your lips, or even your
smile (if it’s there). Your eyes are visible, but in them I see only
compliance, fear, shame and defeat. I don’t judge you, as I know you are a
victim. You have been efficiently conditioned, the result of which has left you
stripped bare of self-confidence, dignity, power and compassion.
Your only strength is to attack those unwilling to join you in obedience. It’s
okay – I don’t feel mad – I feel sad for you. I will allow you to direct your
fear at me and I will accept it, because the battle I am fighting is for you as
well as me. It’s for your children and grandchildren, as well as mine.
You and I both had a choice to make, and I decided to fight for freedom. You
submitted instantly, and attempted to shame, intimidate and coerce me into the
same, becoming outraged at my independence and my belief in “my body, my
choice”. You disagree with my striving for a fair and just society, free from
fraud and deception. You call me a “fascist” for arguing against government
overreach. Do you see this irony?
While you continue to angrily comply, to follow those who have continuously
lied to you, I will continue to push back. I will continue to value my autonomy
and I will use my strength to free us both from the path you are blindly
walking down.
One day you will see how much your compliance almost cost us, and hopefully you
will see that I was never your enemy. I look forward to this day, and I will
celebrate it with you. Until then, I will be here propping you up and
preventing you from falling, anonymously of course.
Sincerely, Anon.
07/02/2022: Let’s break the cycle:
07/02/2022: Is this the first chink in the narrative? Will there come a rush
to say, ‘It wasn’t us’. For example here in Vic literally thousands of people
have died because Dictator Dan banned simple safe effective treatments for
covid which would have saved many of them (instead of promoting them). https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/failed-danish-newspaper-apologizes-not-questioning-governments-covid-19-narrative-video/
06/02/2022: “I did but see her passing by…” a happy Jubilee to our wonderful Queen
today: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-monarchy/2022/02/long-live-our-platinum-queen/
06/02/2022: Gobelki Tepe continues to rewrite history: https://allthatsinteresting.com/gobekli-tepe
06/02/2022: The purpose of education: https://www.city-journal.org/html/self-reliance-vs-self-esteem-12493.html
06/02/2022: Ivermectin now shown to cure cancer: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ivermectin-has-powerful-anti-cancer-effects-study/
05/02/2022: Freedom Protesters in
05/02/2022: I don’t think it is fine to shoot people for jumping the queue, or
spitting on the footpath...Shooting is so noisy (and frightens small
children and horses. Garrotting is fine). The essence of all crime is folks who
forget the ‘golden rule’ (had they ever heard of it? Viz: ‘Do unto others…’).
ie Folks who think they are more important than other folks, so that it is only
the latter who should stand in line! People need to learn to ‘keep their
place’; if they do not, then ‘off with their heads’!
05/02/2022: The Roman, Scipio Aemilianus. His name is
hardly a by-word today – yet it should be. During the course of the Third
Punic War he was famous for repeating, ‘Carthage Must Be Destroyed!’ which they
did most efficaciously when they won, executing all the menfolk, enslaving all
the women and children, razing the city to the ground, ploughing salt into the
fields & etc. Not much sign of
05/02/2022: Natural immunity is still better than anything we have engineered: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/natural-immunity-still-strong-and-durable-20-months-later-no-boosters-needed/
Meanwhile
they are conducting random covid tests because 90% of folk have no idea they
have it: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/02/not-enough-sick-people-to-keep-the-covid-machine-running-now-its-random-covid-tests-for-more-victims.html
05/02/2022: Maybe you think you should hate plastics but you are going to love
this stuff: https://scitechdaily.com/mit-engineers-create-the-impossible-new-material-that-is-stronger-than-steel-and-as-light-as-plastic/
04/02/2022: And I thought lizards laid eggs! https://www.facebook.com/abccanberra/videos/691947541798182
04/02/2022:
04/02/2022: The people are winning against covid tyranny in multiple countries.
Hold the line peeps: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/major-win-uk-govt-backs-down-on-mandatory-jabs-for-healthworker-jabs/
04/02/2022: A mysterious cancer cure: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-cancer-treatment-makes-leukemia-vanish-but-creates-more-mysteries/ar-AATpelW?ocid=msedgntp
04/02/2022: 2000 Mules: It’s normal in elections for one person to make 53 trips
to 20 drop boxes…and this is only the tip of the iceberg in the most
fraudulent election in ‘democratic’ history which must be undone lest the West
is lost: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/2000-mules-its-normal-in-elections-for-one-person-to-make-53-trips-to-20-drop-boxes/
03/02/2022: “Koalas don’t need saving. Indeed, they are in much higher numbers
across a much wider area today than when Europeans arrived in
03/02/2022: Official (office of national statistics) figures that over the last
two years 17371 people in the UK actually died ‘from covid’ as compared to
‘with covid’ ie about 10% of the total normally attributed to it. This is no
more than would ‘normally’ die ‘from’ seasonal flu over the same time period.
It also begs the question of how many might have been ‘saved’ if readily
available proven prevention and treatment had been applied (instead of in some
case banned). The average age of these folks who died was mid 80s, ie above the
‘normal’ average age of death. This leads one to question how many years of
life have been saved by ‘health’ and economic measures compared with the cost
in years of life expended (lockdowns etc). Clearly you could hardly argue that
more than a year of life was ‘lost’ by every person who died - or 17371 life
years, but just as clearly locking up 70 million people for perhaps a year
‘cost’ 70 million life years a ratio of over 4,000 years of life expended for
every year of life ‘saved’. Similarly if you divide the economic costs by the
‘life years’ saved it just doesn’t add up. https://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2022/01/23/ons-data-shows-17371-covid-19-deaths-with-no-underlying-conditions-from-a-total-of-152872-recorded-as-died-within-28-days-of-testing-positive/
NB: I strongly suspect if these ratios hold up for Australia we have in fact
lost only approx 300 (not 3,000) 85+ year olds to covid in two years so
probably costing us at most 300 life-years. We have lost more lives in total
and orders of magnitude more life years to suicide due to the lockdowns. Here
in
03/02/2022: The Rape of
03/02/2022: This would be so nice – bring it on: https://newatlas.com/medical/osteoarthritis-pain-treatment-molecular-pathway/
02/02/2022: A dog who can teach us a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvwYZuBttQ
02/02/2022: “Since (just) 2019,there have been over 350 peer-reviewed scientific
papers published showing no warming in the modern era and/or much warmer
temperatures than today when CO2 levels ranged from 180 to 280 ppm” Remember
Einstein’s observation, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/31/105-more-non-global-warming-non-hockey-stick-temperature-records-added-to-the-database-in-2021/
02/02/2022: Just imagine if people did not want to buy woke propaganda: https://pjmedia.com/culture/matt-margolis/2022/01/28/dc-comics-bisexual-climate-change-fighting-superman-is-kryptonite-to-sales-n1553849
02/02/2022: It is long since time we started to build nuclear power stations,
stopped scrapping coal but ditched useless and costly ‘green’ energy. The
woke left are destroying us. Fight back like the Canadian truckies are showing
us how to do: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/suddenly-the-world-shifts-back-to-nuclear/ PS: I notice the socialists are condemning
the workers of the world for uniting!
01/02/2022: Maybe you thought it was whalers who nearly drove the blue whale to
extinction: https://gizmodo.com/horrific-observations-confirm-that-orcas-feed-on-blue-w-1848442007
01/02/2022: If these side-effects of MRNA vaccines are general the cost will be
appalling – and our governments mandated this stuff. NB “The increase in
medical reports didn’t happen during the first year of Covid, only after the
vaccination program was started. In other words, Covid itself didn’t cause
this”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/whistleblowers-reveal-dod-medical-data-showing-military-cancer-diagnoses-tripled-since-rollout-experimental-vaccines-along-10x-increase-neurological-disorders-near-5x/
& https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/game-changer-us-military-data-shows-shockingly-high-vaccination-injuries/
01/02/2022: Elon Musk, “ if the government had the mandate of the people there
would (not) be a significant counter-protest. There is not, therefore they
do not…“It would appear that the so-called ‘fringe minority’ is actually the
government…Protesting in a Canadian winter shows real commitment!”
01/02/2022: Vitamin D supplements really do reduce the risk of auto-immune
diseases: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2306132-vitamin-d-supplements-really-do-reduce-risk-of-autoimmune-disease/
31/01/2022: A Billion Years of Time is Just Missing – did they look under the sofa
cushions: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdzzb/a-billion-years-of-time-are-mysteriously-missing-scientists-think-they-know-why
31/01/2022: Astra Zenica Booster (if you don’t want a Pfizer/Moderna and can’t wait
for Novavax): You can still get one if you get a certificate from your doctor.
We have. It is (if anything) even more effective than the alternatives: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/astrazeneca-shot-third-dose-works-against-omicron-study-2021-12-23/?fbclid=IwAR17-sPdF_iZLr-eyp4deAoU5OmSb2w-owBiSph3FQ-RT5vCb16RvPu8zuQ
31/01/2022: We Are a young country: I have lived nearly
a third of our country’s history (73/234 years). My grandfather George (b
1872) had lived half of its history to date when he died in 1955. He used to claim
he had met someone who was on the First Fleet which may have been true (but he
was a notorious story-teller). His grandfather Thomas Westbury who was
transported here in 1828 would have. Also certainly Della’s mother, Dorothy who
passed away in 2013 could rightly say that her grandmother had too. Her
grandmother, Fannie was born in Tiverton Devon in 1844. She lived next door to
her grandmother Mary (Madge) Richards (d1855) who was not only on the First
Fleet (as a soldier’s wife) but gave birth to a son, William on the voyage out!
You can understand perhaps why I am annoyed that (it seems to me) we are just
throwing our country away – if we have not done so already.
30/01/2022: Ice Travel: Sometimes in winter on trails like the EBC
etc there are dangerous patches of ice which need to be traversed. Obviously if
you were expecting this as a constant situation you would be using more serious
crampons. Vargo have just updated their ultralight
pocket cleats (62 grams each) which can be quickly attached to your shoes
for extra traction in such situations. They are now simpler, more elegant and
look more reliable than their
earlier product and with a weight saving of about 5 grams.
30/01/2022: Faraday Bag – What a world that we should need such things.
30/01/2022: Ask yourself this (if you
supposed there was some runaway ‘greenhouse effect’) how does the world maintain
such a perfect constant average
27/01/2022: Our BOM is totally out of control: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/26/australias-broken-temperature-record-part-1/ & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/27/statistical-analysis-can-provide-evidence-that-the-official-australian-acornsat-2-1-temperature-analysis-has-added-non-climatic-warming-to-the-record-1910-to-2019/
27/01/2022:
27/01/2022: About time we had a second Crimean War. We need more Australian place
names memorialising such faraway places: Balaclava, Inkerman,
26/01/2022: It begins at last– the undoing of a crooked election.
26/01/2022: Terraforming the
26/01/2022: This just can’t be happening: The Criminalisation of Christianity in
26/01/2022: The ‘Aboriginal’
24/01/2022: “The Assyrians came down like a wolf on the fold” (Byron). Might be
worth a watch. They created a civilisation that makes Medieval Europe, 2000
years later, seem like a barbarian place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpAphcaVJIs
24/01/2022: How science actually works – a great article Christopher: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/science/2022/01/the-curse-of-scientisms-domining-paradigm/
24/01/2022: Archaeological evidence of time travel – there are some interesting
conundrums/mistakes/frauds in the records, like these: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/controversial-origins-maine-penny-norse-coin-america-020241
& https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/swiss-ring-watch-003312
23/01/2022: Thousands still protesting vaccine mandates in
23/01/2022:
23/01/2022: The
most astonishing thing about ‘trust the science’: The British Medical Journal “Today, despite the global rollout of covid-19 vaccines and
treatments, the anonymised participant level data underlying the trials for
these new products remain inaccessible to doctors, researchers, and the
public—and are likely to remain that way for years to come. This is morally
indefensible for all trials, but especially for those involving major public
health interventions.” https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/top-british-medical-journal-tells-pfizer-give-us-the-data-its-morally-indefensible/
It is not a ‘conspiracy theory’ to
question: https://the-pipeline.org/something-wicked-really-does-this-way-come/
23/01/2022: Why not?
22/01/2022: Our political class today – the advanced ostrich position:
22/01/2022: Trump was right about hydroxychloroquine – of
course this might be why Merck’s new treatment (approved by the TGA yesterday
is basically just relabeled hydroxy): https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/dr-zelenko-gets-the-last-laugh/
22/01/2022: Clearly, the cheapest way to stop global warming
would be to sack everyone at the BOM : https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/bom-cools-history-and-warms-the-present-version-2-2/
22/01/2022: If you are a retired teacher who still has nightmares about having to
face 9d at 9:00 am this morning your dreams are about to come true: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/education-victoria/retired-teachers-called-to-cover-as-covid-hits-victorias-schools/news-story/dace3b9d5b39244bf37c04d58975dc33
21/01/2022: Gun owners annually save more lives than are lost to any disease. This
does not happen in
21/01/2022: Goebells was right after all. Keep telling lies and the people will
believe you. A
21/01/2022: “We live in an age that makes truth pass for
treason, and as I dare not say anything against it, so the ears of those
that are about me will probably be found too tender to hear it. This my trial
and condemnation do sufficiently evidence." Few know that Jefferson mentioned
PS:
21/01/2022:
Tucker: We’re watching civilization collapse in real time. If you are
attention span short go to about the 15 minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DREmnsungVM&t=122s
20/01/2022: This is what really happened when a group of schoolboys was marooned
on an island for 15 months. Why do we focus on Golding’s quite false ‘Lord
of the Flies’ narrative instead: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months
20/01/2022:
20/01/2022: 4th Booster fails in
20/01/2022: It is apparently very lonely ruling the world. Frankly when they
‘fact-check my posts or downgrade my Google rankings (& etc) they don’t get
much sympathy from me: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/workers-at-big-woke-tech-monopolies-are-miserable/
19/01/2022: Flying Deer? Why you need really tall fences for deer: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/michael-jordan-has-nothing-on-this-flying-deer/
Mind you I suspect I could move much faster if a big cat was after me too!
19/01/2022: Hunting has been around a long, long time yet some ‘New Age’ folk want
to tell me they have discovered it isn’t a good. They are quite simply wrong.
Ethics don’t change: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-hunters-0016305
19/01/2022: We would have done much better if we had followed
19/01/2022:
18/01/2022: The
Joy of Small Streams: This is the
A couple of earlier posts such as Travels
in a Donkey Trap & The Commute
may illustrate this better.
You will have read that Della has a new Alpacka
Scout which we are keen to try out, but it is difficult to do much with
this knee (agonising) as it presently is. Less than a month to go and I will
have a new one, and hopefully a new lease of life to go with it – but there
will be quite a few weeks of recuperation and restoration I’m sure before I
travel far and wide.
The
This trip will take about three hours when the river is
clear and will be just beautiful at river heights on the Boolarra Gauge
of between .5 and .6 metres. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/17/the-joy-of-small-streams/
18/01/2022: So, panspermia is a thing – maybe all life on earth is alien in origin?
The
18/01/2022: What do you see when you actually measure ‘anthropogenic CO2: “Our
results show that the percentage of the total CO2 due to the
use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018,
much too low to be the cause of global warming.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/16/how-much-manmade-co2-is-in-the-atmosphere-really/
18/01/2022: ‘The path to
17/01/2022: A
Good Scout: This is the Alpacka
Scout which I bought for my wife Della (or was it for myself?) for a Xmas
present – here modeled by my daughter and grandson in the farm dam.
Pack
Raft Australia are the Australian agents. Their prices are as low as you
could possible get it from the
My daughter (and my wife are around 5′ and 40 kg
sort of people. This raft (at 1.5 kg) is ideal for them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/17/a-good-scout/
17/01/2022: “When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when
the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty”. Thomas Jefferson.
17/01/2022: Trump can still draw the crowds like no other – what sane person
can believe that this man did not win the
17/01/2022: “The Chinese regime has taken to heart the Leninist slogan,“The
capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Important
messages from Ronald Reagan the greatest
17/01/2022: The world’s greatest tennis player is not allowed to win the Australian
Open because of his beliefs even though he is zero risk of causing any
health problems amongst us as we record 100,000+ new cases per day and he is
‘recovered’ status anyway. I’m sure you all know that I have no interest at all
in spectator sport but I am passionate about our freedoms. I am quite frankly
ashamed by this stupid, illiberal decision.
16/01/2022: Are 3D printed rockets the future of space exploration: https://www.space.com/relativity-space-company-terran-1-launch
16/01/2022: “A democracy cannot
exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters
discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From
that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most
benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always
collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The
average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years...When the
taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their
education...the time will come when men are carried away and lose all
self-restraint...It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order
to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their
hold...they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own
masters." Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59)
16/01/2022: Epstein-Barr – another nasty virus: https://scitechdaily.com/compelling-evidence-that-multiple-sclerosis-is-caused-by-epstein-barr-virus/
16/01/2022: AI news reader has been live for 70 days and no-one noticed the
difference. I suspect this has happened with many of our political leaders
too: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/china-reveals-ai-news-anchor-almost-indistinguishable-real-human
15/01/2022: It’s impossible to ‘save a life’. I for
one am fed up with the hype that always surrounds all the ‘nanny-state’
nonsense which goes with all sorts of attempts to do so. Everyone has exactly
the same numbers of lives and deaths, ie one. Nothing, save the discovery of
the secret of immortality can change that. However, though the date of your
birth is petty much fixed, the date of your death may not be. I’m sure we have
all had close shaves. Death cannot be indefinitely postponed however. All that
can happen is that we can be granted a little more time – mostly this is spent
slumped in a wheelchair pooping oneself! So not much to be gained really. A
more reliable measure is to add up the relative savings in (life) times that
any particular proposal might make as compared with the cost in (life) times
that it will entail. For example, it is sometimes argued that reducing the
speed on a particular road will ‘save’ a certain number of lives. All that can
(possibly) be ‘saved’ is the remainder of any particular ‘victim’s’ life which
was foregone by his/her earlier than expected demise. Set against that quantum
of time you have to count the ‘cost’ in time of slowing down all the drivers on
that road - possibly several (life) times per year here - and the cost in time
of caring for the geriatric period of the person who had died ‘prematurely’. If
the second set of ‘times’ exceeds the first then the proposal is not worth doing.
Everyone’s life is equally worthless or worthwhile in this cost accounting,
which may not be the case!
15/01/2022: What the other epidemiologists (60,000 of them) say: https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/
15/01/2022: Maybe if we gave up washing our skin could take care of itself: https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/skincare-science-cleansing-dermatology-truth.html
15/01/2022: Will space anaemia strand us on earth forever or will a solution be
found for future star trekkers: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/we-dont-know-why-but-being-in-space-causes-us-to-destroy-our-blood/
14/01/2022: Buster Keaton was the funniest man ever, as you can see in this
clip from his 100 year old movie ‘Cops’ (1920): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1_zJngNak&t=366s
You can download the complete film for free from archive.org
14/01/2022: This is really bad news: US inflation has hit 7% https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/inflation-went-up-7-in-december-from-a-year-earlier-fastest-pace-since-1982/
80% of all
14/01/2022:
13/01/2022: Interesting. The lost habit of two sleeps – so many everyday things
scarcely make it into history. If you have ‘problems’ sleeping, you should read
this: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep
11/01/2022: I
realized the vaccines had problems but I did not realize they were this bad: “Instead
of bringing an end to this pandemic as promised, the widespread rollout of the
experimental vaccines has actually caused a sharp increase in Covid-19 cases and deaths across
the world, the jab has caused a whopping 38% more Covid cases
per million – and an even more astonishing 31% increase in deaths per million”.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/massive-145-country-study-shows-sharp-increase-transmission-death-introduction-covid-vaccines/
Meanwhile Ivermectin even at very low doses saves a huge (70%)
percentage of sufferers: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/bizarrely-low-dose-ivermectin-still-cut-infections-hospitalization-in-half-deaths-by-70/
08/01/2022: January 6 Remembered – It’s only when conservatives do it (and do no
harm) that it matters: https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/07/8-times-left-wing-protesters-broke-into-government-buildings-and-assaulted-democracy/
07/01/2022: Virtue signalling is all very well but not if it costs me a single
buck: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/its-just-a-fashion-most-climate-worriers-dont-want-to-fly-less-drive-less-or-eat-less-meat-either/
07/01/2022: Viagra — is there anything it can't do? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/01/viagrais_there_anything_it_cant_do.html
Melatonin
reduces deaths by maybe 90%, good old antihistamines saved
nursing home patients, Iota-carageenan
nasal sprays reduced infections by 80%, Mouthwashes reduce covid deaths by
80%. Asthma
drug Budesonide reduces Covid hospitalization rate by 90%. Even
cough syrup with Bromhexine might help.
Indonesia
cut Covid by 98% with Ivermectin while
06/01/2022: A must read – mass formation psychosis explained: https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opinion-how-have-we-gotten-here-mass-formation-psychosis-explained/
06/01/2022: How the 1960s institutionalized us. Roger Kimball is great. “The
long march of the cultural revolution of the 1960s has succeeded beyond the
wildest dreams of all but the most starry-eyed utopians. The great irony is
that this victory took place in the midst of a significant drift to the
center-right in electoral politics. The startling and depressing fact is that
supposedly conservative victories at the polls have done almost nothing to
challenge the dominance of left-wing, emancipationist attitudes and ideas in
our culture… It is both ironical and dispiriting to realize that the
counterculture may have won its most insidious victories not among its natural
sympathizers on the left but among those putatively conservative opponents who
can no longer distinguish between material affluence and the moral good…” https://spectatorworld.com/topic/institutionalized-long-march-marcuse-sixties-revolution/
05/01/2022: Terraforming Mars – I used to think it was only Sci-Fi but maybe
someday it will happen (especially if Musk has anything to do with it): https://dnyuz.com/2022/01/02/nasas-retiring-top-scientist-says-we-can-terraform-mars-and-maybe-venus-too/
05/01/2022: Another Elon Musk first: https://nypost.com/2022/01/03/why-cats-are-cozying-up-to-elon-musks-starlink-satellites/
05/01/2022: What is happening here? A 40% increase in the death rates of working
age people would have to be very worrying: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/highest-death-rates-history-indiana-life-insurance-ceo-says-deaths-whopping-40-among-people-aged-18-64-2020-fraction-covid-deaths-video/
05/01/2022: French Presidential candidate Eric Zemmour’s Christmas message. He
would get my vote. If only our Oz leaders had half his belief in the worth
of our civilisation instead of being so eager to throw it away. “Christmas Eve
begins the celebration of a civilization – ours – that has enlightened human
history. A civilization that believes man is absolutely free, whatever his
birth, his past, his environment, his path. In the Christian world, liberty has
a divine nature and must be protected as the most precious treasure. A
civilization that believes men are equal in dignity…: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/01/a-belated-christmas-message-from-eric-zemmour/
04/01/2022: Increasing Tyranny World-Wide. Just a couple of ‘incidents’ to
underline this. Once the ABC’s 7:30 report or the Herald Sun (the mainstream
media generally) would have headlined such things but they are now complicit in
concealing the news (and the deteriorating situation). Dr Malone (the inventor
of the mRNA process which underlines some vaccines (he actually specifically
warns against) gave an interview the other day explaining the phenomenon of
‘mass formation psychosis’ (mas hysteria) and its role in advancing
totalitarianism. This search term ‘broke’ Google for over 24 hours as the
people behind the manipulation of information scrambled (unsuccessfully this
time) to cover it up. You could find out about this at ‘Infowars’ for example
(and many other sites) but I would not be able to post links to them without being banned permanently from
Facebook & etc. In a like way Tommy Robinson has just completed a
documentary about
Check
out the follow-up to these ‘incidents’ here: https://t.me/s/TommyRobinsonNews
Not so long ago we would have (rightly) insisted that perpetrators of child
(any) rape would be hanged from the nearest tree. Now the police (society?) has
become complicit in such awful crimes.
04/01/2022: This is normal: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/01/new-annual-temperature-data-show-no-warming-in-tokyo-in-45-yearshachijo-jima-island-no-warming-in-71-years/
You can check the BOM
04/01/2022: Life will find a way – for thousands of bugs ‘plastic pollution is
just food. They will soon have gobbled it all up. Like so many things, not
a problem: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/01/plastics-are-not-forever-bugs-evolved-30000-new-plastic-eating-enzymes-already/
04/01/2022: Abortion was the world’s leading cause of death last year (by a long
shot). Over 40 million! For comparison
03/01/2022: And Now For the Good News: Dear IPCC, First get the science right…If
you have a great big hole in the roof it will be impossible to heat your house…if
all the heat ‘leaks’ out over
03/01/2022: Canoeing into the New Year: There was 2.05 metres of lovely water
on the Waterford gauge and 1.60 on the Crooked River gauge and several above
30C degree days to look forward to so we filled the 15 litre Esky keg with ice
(and some celebratory cans of champagne for Della) tossed all our gear into two
cars and headed off (of course with the two dogs) to Eaglevale intending to
canoe down to Kingwill Bridge over a (very) leisurely three days. This is an
excellent height but we enjoyed the trip before with only 1.75 on the
It is (roughly 2.5 hours down to Bullock Flat then a further 2.5
hours down to (unsignposted) Neates Track thence a further 3 hours down to the
This trip could be achieved in one
(hectic) day if you were of such a mind or you could take your time, enjoy lots
of refreshing swims, picnics under shady trees and etc and just take your time.
‘There is nothing quite like messing about in boats’ as Ratty (or Mole) opined
in ‘Wind in the Willows’. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/01/02/canoeing-into-the-new-year/
03/01/2022: Three inches of rain coming but the BOM is still calling it ‘Showers’!
03/01/2022: The Perfect Husband? Well, probably not but I am a hero today
having fixed Della’s (long-suffering) stove problem. Several years’ ago I installed
a new Westinghouse GSP 627S gas stove for her. After a short while the door
started to give problems and would not close properly. Repeated efforts to gain
warranty failed as did various jack-leg work arounds so that we mainly reverted
to propping the door ‘closed’ with a short length of broom handle or similar.
Lately I decided to have another go and discovered this wonderful lady’s
‘review’ of her own experiences. https://www.productreview.com.au/listings/westinghouse-gsp627s
This led me to the people who sell the improved door support bracket (https://allfixelectrical.com.au/products/westinghouse-4u600-series-improved-oven-door-hinge-support-bracket-kit-part-0133002227k?_pos=2&_sid=e0b4fc722&_ss=r
– a whole $21!) It really took no more than five minutes to install them and
now (after many years) the door closes perfectly – much more perfectly than it
did from new.
02/01/2022: Happy New Year: We have been away from people canoeing – more
about that in a later post. Occasionally coming upon the (literally) hordes of
benighted campers confined to ‘camping grounds’ along the river whilst we enjoyed
mile after mile of solitary bliss led us to reflect that (at now over 70 – me)
we have enjoyed the best of all lives, and we are still doing so. Those who
come after have very much less to look forward to largely because of the
proliferation of government and other big controlling entities. Still there is
even more wilderness to enjoy than there ever was. The world has added an area
of a couple of Australias of forest in just the last quarter century or so for
example, and as people crowd more and more into urban areas and access roads
and tracks are closed the bush is more and more thinly populated. It is really
no use buying one of the Thai 4WD dual cabs. The only way to access the bush is
by canoe or shanks’ pony. Get out there and enjoy before it is banned too.
02/01/2022: Great lines from old films. The 1930s was a golden era. Mae West
stands out even there. Here is one from ‘Dinner at 8’. I doubt cinematographers
would be allowed to go even this far today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2tCDHgK9J4&t=28s
02/01/2022: It has been raining fish in
02/01/2022: Inflation. ‘Nothing to see here’ is the standard government lie,
but all along they devalue the currency again and again with this device,
punishing savers and rewarding the profligate. The result for most of us is
that we become relatively poorer whilst ‘enjoying’ a larger and larger swag of
government of all sorts. This is disguised by many people having heaps of cheap
Chinese toys to play with (funded by our only profitable